591st Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 591st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 22, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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591st Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 591st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 22, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped to Over $35M

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

In these unusual times, many who once dreamed of funding are forced to bootstrap. Well, bootstrapping is good during good times, and necessary during bad times. Here, BannerBuzz Founder and CEO Nishant Shah shares how he bootstrapped to over $35 million in 2019 revenue.

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?

Nishant Shah: I was born and raised in Ahmedabad, India. I studied civil engineering at the university, and then went on to do my masters in construction management from Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

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Darktrace Builds on its Cybersprint Acquisition

According to a recent report, the global cyber security market size is expected to grow 9% annually from $173.5 billion in 2022 to $266.2 billion by 2027 fueled by the increasing adoption of digital transformation tools to streamline operations, increase mobility, and migrate away from on-premise technologies. UK-based Darktrace is a leading AI-based cyber security provider that continues to improve its product offerings to drive market expansion.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Name the companies that are very expensive to use but address the problems you’re talking about.

Dheeraj Pandey: SQL-based data warehouses. Snowflake did an amazing job in the last 10 years to make it more accessible. Data was still locked in a few people’s bureaucracies. I helped create some of those back at Oracle, but we created big systems. These were hardware-based systems that had the traditional Oracle software. Not many people had access to it. They’re not elastic.

Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You knew the specs of what needed to be built. That kind of domain knowledge is invaluable.

David Chmielewski: Right. We knew what we wanted to build. We already built it. Our flagship product is a dispute system. At BoA, I had already built three of them. We didn’t have a single line of code, but I knew what we had done and I knew how to make it better. I know First Tech saw that. We were all confident that we could do this.

September Coupons for Udemy Courses Based on 1Mby1M Methodology

Over the years, we have developed a proven methodology for building tech startups. We have started packaging the 1Mby1M methodology into short courses on Udemy. This is an extension of our strategy to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale, globally.

Here are the $12.99 coupon codes for all of our courses on Udemy. These coupons expire on September 30, 2022, so enroll today!

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Cloud Stocks: Coupa Helps Maximize Savings Efficiency to Tackle Global Economic Conditions

According to a recent report, the Global SaaS-based Expense Management market is expected to grow at 11% CAGR to reach $6.6 billion by 2028. San Mateo-based Coupa (Nasdaq: COUP) recently announced its second quarter results that surpassed market expectations. As economic conditions remain turbulent globally, the company is focusing on delivering added value to its customers.