Best of Bootstrapping: Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later in Utah

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We’re big fans of solo entrepreneurs. GuideCX Founder CEO Peter Ord validated his business with real paying customers before he raised money; always the best strategy.

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?

Peter Ord: I grew up in San Diego, California. I’m one of five boys. My father was a homebuilder and my mother was a teacher. Our summer jobs involved framing homes for my father. Oddly enough, that’s where some of the ideas came for GuideCX. There is a certain order to an operation that needed to occur that I grew up seeing over and over again.

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Sramana Mitra: Besides the guy you brought in from Twitter, who else did you bring in as your key team member? How did you find them?

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Using Services from Helsinki, Finland

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European companies often follow a methodical, deliberate approach to business building as opposed to mindlessly chasing venture capital. FA Solutions Managing Director Juha Lehtonen has used the principles of bootstrapping using services to build his venture from Finland.

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?

Juha Lehtonen: I’m from Finland. I was born and raised in the countryside about 100 kilometers north from Helsinki. I was born in a family where my father was an entrepreneur. He had set up a construction business with his brother. All my childhood, I saw my father working as an entrepreneur from 7AM to 10PM. As a child, I wasn’t really very handy. I’m not the one who was to follow my father. I was fairly good at school. I was into computers. That’s how I grew up.

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