Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to Exit

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Krish Kupathil is the Founder of Mobiliya Technologies. When we spoke in 2013, the company was known as AgreeYa Mobility, an enterprise mobility and mobile system integration company providing solutions for collaboration and communication products for mobile platforms. QuEST Global acquired Mobiliya in 2018.

Sramana: Krish, let’s start with your personal story. Where are you from? What is the story to your personal journey?

Krish Kupathil: I was born and brought up in Delhi, India. I did my schooling and college in India. I started dabbling in software in 1987 and did some initial work in India. I got into software related businesses surrounding finance. I did some work out of Europe and Singapore before landing in the U.S. ten years ago. I was involved in a few startups in earlier years as well.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Pumas.ai CEO Joga Gobburu (Part 1)

Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning techniques are starting to achieve dramatic impact on drug discovery and precision medicine.

Pumas.ai is a bootstrapped venture at the cutting edge of the field. I learned much from this conversation. You will too!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with an introduction of yourself as well as the company.

Catching Up On Readings: MWC 2023

This feature from The Wall Street Journal covers the highlights of the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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March 16 – 602nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 602nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 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!

601st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 2 – Velocity Drives Fundability

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with three entrepreneurs. There were several discussions on how velocity drives fundability.

SoyKitty

First up, we had Ashley Hejlik in Oaxaca, Mexico, pitch SoyKitty, a solution for managing the stench of cat litter.

Pigee

Next, we had Leroy from London, England, pitch Pigee, a shipping service for travelers to ship shopping back home.

Salutation Media

Then, Dawn-Michelle Lewis from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pitched Salutations Media, a service for developing high quality podcasts.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Rapid Growth and $58 Million in Financing with a Virtual Company: Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about running a virtual company. What are some of the benefits that you’re deriving out of a global talent pool and the cost structure of a global talent pool? What are the nuances? I’ve been running a virtual company since 2010.

Dominik Angerer: In 2010, there was not environment that supported you doing that. Now there’s a lot of things you can use. My co-founder Alex moved back to Brazil in 2018. We both knew that if he moves back, we needed to find a way to employ him in Brazil. We actually created a subsidiary. If we wanted to create people in Germany, we had to create a subsidiary there as well. We cannot work with contractors all the time because of all the IP.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $12M+ and Exit

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Aaron Fulkerson Founded MindTouch, a company that offers a cloud-based self-service help center and knowledge-as-a-service platform. He grew the business to eight figures as a bootstrapped company with no venture, no debt. The company was sold to Nice Systems in April 2021. Here is our conversation from 2013.

Sramana: Aaron, tell us where you are from and a bit about your background. What are the roots of your entrepreneurial story?

Aaron Fulkerson: I grew up in a small town south of San Jose, California. Back then it was very rural and was still a farming community. At the same time, Silicon Valley was starting to blossom. In the 1980s, as a kid, I would dial into bulletin board services. I also wrote quite a bit of code. I did all of this from the farm I was growing up on.

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