Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to an Inflection Point

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

Happy Grasshopper CEO Dan Stewart was a 1Mby1M entrepreneur when we spoke in 2017. Read how he navigated his way to an inflection point that brought him to the cusp of 4x growth.

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?

Dan Stewart: My family moved around quite a lot as I was growing up. I rarely stayed in a school for more than a year. That took me from West Virginia and Chicago, down to Florida.

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Non-Technical Founders Building a Venture Scale SaaS Company: Sendoso CEO Braydan Young (Part 1)

Braydan and his cofounder are sales guys who have bootstrapped Sendoso to revenue and then raised over $150 million in VC money to scale an excellent SaaS company. Braydan discusses some of the mistakes and challenges, as well as their many successes.

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?

August 3 – 614th 1Mby1M Roundtable Spotlighting Odish Startups

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 614th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at 8:30 p.m. India IST/ 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST.

During this special roundtable, women entrepreneurs will have first priority to Pitch. 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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613th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording July – Spotlight on Women Entrepreneurs

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping to over $5M: Vladimir Gendelman, CEO of Company Folders (Part 4)

Vladimir Gendelman: We also included a lifetime warranty. We are the only printing company that offers that. The standard is your order, you get it, and then you have 7 to 10 days to inspect it. If there’s a problem, you can contact the printer, and they’ll take care of it.

Roundtable Recap: July 27 – July Spotlight on Women Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we put the spotlight on women entrepreneurs in India in collaboration with our partners, Aspire for Her.

NevilLabs

First up, we had Neha Mahendarkar Vijaya from Bangalore, India, pitch NevilLabs, an EdTech venture.

Cashvisory

Next, Arpita Sinha, from Kolkata, India, pitched Cashvisory, a wealth management advisory platform.

Ecoplore

Then Prerna Prasad from Delhi, India, pitched Ecoplore, an online travel agency for sustainable eco-tourism.

Zevaraati

Aruhima Antarkar from Surat, India, pitched Zevaraati, a diamond jewelry venture.

DermaQ

Next, Ruhi Kurele from Pune, India, pitched DermaQ, a dermatology consulting and treatment app.

iVillage

From Delhi, India, Aryah Vaibhhav Mahajan pitched iVillage, a social enterprise for making cloth bags and such with a mission to replace plastic, manufactured by rural women.

It was an impressive display of energy, talent and immense potential.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping to over $5M: Vladimir Gendelman, CEO of Company Folders (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you recover from that situation where you lost traffic? How did you come back from that?

Vladimir Gendelman: We also got hit at the beginning of all those penalties. There wasn’t much information out there. We hired a company. It was a digital marketing company that had some knowledge of this. They gave us ideas on what to do.

613th Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 613th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 27, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2555 625 9503 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!