Cloud Stocks: HashiCorp Struggles to Maintain DecaCorn Valuation Amid Stock Conditions

According to a recent report, the global infrastructure as code (IaC) market is estimated to grow at 24% CAGR to $2.3 billion by 2027 from $0.8 billion this year. IaC technologies assist system administrators in manual procedures and allow application developers to concentrate on what they do effectively by optimizing and refactoring infrastructure builds. San Francisco-based HashiCorp (Nasdaq: HCP) is a leading player in the market that recently announced its quarterly results that outpaced market expectations.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Over $20M and Exit

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

We’re big fans of bootstrapping to exit case studies. Imagine Easy Solutions’ Co-founder and Co-CEO Neal Taparia shares his wonderful journey. They scaled the business to over $20 million in revenue without investment and sold to Chegg in 2016.

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

Neal Taparia: I was born in the suburbs of Chicago. My parents were immigrants from India. I’m first-generation in the United States. I did my undergraduate education in Chicago. After that, I settled down in New York where I’ve been ever since. 

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Our focus is on the early stage. Let’s double-click down on your early-stage work. How do you define early-stage?

Dheeraj Pandey: I don’t believe in spray-and-pray. I get to know someone over five to seven meetings and sometimes tenacity helps as well. They must succeed if they’re tenacious. In the world of sales, I basically call it fearless. Sometimes we would use the word shameless. You cannot have shame if you’re asking for something. We do Series A and Series B as well. We started out with biotech and life sciences, but we’re looking at software more and more. It’s across geographies – US and Bangalore.

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Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Why were you looking for remote work?

David Chmielewski: I had found my wife at Auto Owners, got married, and didn’t want to leave. I grew up in Michigan. I still live there. I wanted to have the ability to spread my wings a little bit, but I knew it wasn’t necessarily going to be an option to stay in Michigan with an on-premise job. I found this remote job.

Sramana Mitra: How did you find a remote job back then?

Best of Bootstrapping: From Laid-off Engineer to Successful Startup Co-founder

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Michelle Munson is Co-founder of Aspera, a company she began after being laid off. Aspera was her realization that she could not only control her own career path, but also create jobs for other people in a culture she established. I hope this conversation from 2009 inspires everyone who has been let go by their employers. Aspera was acquired by IBM in 2017.

SM: Michelle, where does your story begin?

MM: I grew up in Kansas, on a farm. My family is a five-generation farm family that raises Angus cattle as well as wheat, corn and soybeans. There is a long-standing family tradition in both the line of business and the location. My mom is a retired university professor. I grew up in Kansas, went to school there and went to college at Kansas State University. That is an interesting point with me; I was accepted to MIT and went to Kansas State.

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GitLab Relies on a Comprehensive DevOps Suite to Address Growth

According to a recent report, the Global DevOps Market is expected to grow 20% annually over the next few years from $37.2 million in 2030. DevOps platform provider GitLab (Nasdaq:GTLB) recently announced impressive second quarter results.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)

Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights into the gaps in the tech industry.

Sramana Mitra: We’re going to continue the conversation we’ve had where we talked about his background as a founder of a successful high-growth company. We’re going to talk about investment today. Let’s start by however you want to introduce yourself and your companies.

Colors: Blue Vastness  VI

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Blue Vastness  VI

Blue Vastness  VI | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper