Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped with Services to $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Founder Sameer Maggon discussed bootstrapping SearchStax to $10 million using services in 2021. Excellently navigated journey!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background?

Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer Science from Pune. Then I came back to my hometown to work for a document management company. Then I decided to learn more. I came to USC in Los Angeles and did my Masters in Computer Science. Since then, I’ve been in LA and worked in a variety of startups and larger companies in the greater Los Angeles area. 

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Building a Global AI Venture for Medical Imaging Analysis from India: Prashant Warier, CEO of Qure.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to build a product based on this data?

Prashant Warier: We started in 2016 — a lot of the data acquisition happened by mid-2017. In the first year of Qure, I was on the road working on getting more data. As a data scientist, I knew that data was key. You see algorithms built on a hundred images that don’t work. We spent time getting access to a lot of data. 2017 was when we started building our core products.

Thursday, September 14 – 618th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 618th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

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Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped First, Raised $10M, Scaled to $16M

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This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati told us all about their journey in 2021.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does your journey begin? 

Sarva Srinivasan: I was born in India and grew up there. I did my Computer Science there, then majored in Finance. I then started working with Wipro.

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Building a Global AI Venture for Medical Imaging Analysis from India: Prashant Warier, CEO of Qure.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happened to the company?

Prashant Warier: I got an exit in 2015. Somebody wanted to acquire the technology and use that for customer targeting for email engines.

Sramana Mitra: Was that bootstrapped?

Prashant Warier: Yes.

Building a Global AI Venture for Medical Imaging Analysis from India: Prashant Warier, CEO of Qure.ai (Part 1)

Prashant has built a wonderful Healthcare AI company with 1600 customers worldwide. This is extremely sophisticated navigation. Please read on to learn the nuances.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

Catching Up On Readings: State of AI Q2’23

This report from CBInsights covers the funding trends in AI during the second quarter of 2023 when seven new AI unicorns were born. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.