Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with Services to $12M

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

You know that we believe in the Bootstrapping Using Services methodology quite firmly. Here is Square Root Founder Chris Taylor’s story from 2016 – a great example of how and why bootstrapping using services works.

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?

Chris Taylor: I grew up in rural West Virginia. You won’t meet a lot of entrepreneurs out of West Virginia. When I was four, my father passed away, so my brother and I were raised by our mother. She did a fantastic job. My brother is also another entrepreneur. In college, I went to Carnegie-Mellon and studied Computer Science, Psychology, and Mathematics.

>>>

Featured Videos

Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 1)

Min tells a wonderful story of building a scaling a PropTech company with significant funding at a $100M+ valuation.

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?

Catching Up On Readings: FinTech 250 2022

This annual report from CB Insights lists 250 of the most promising private FinTech companies in the world that are shaping the future of B2B and B2C financial services, from payments and banking to investing and insurance. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Video FAQs

593rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Giuseppe Donvito, P101 Ventures

Giuseppe Donvito is Partner at P101 Ventures based in Milan. We have a wonderful conversation about Italian startups.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | RSS

593rd Roundtable Recording with Giuseppe Donvito, P101 Ventures

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

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anirudh Damani, Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund (Part 6)

Anirudh Damani: However, India continues to be a very price-conscious market. India is not usually the place where you come to have massive profits. You get massive scale but not massive profits. When you go overseas like Africa or Southeast Asia, there are two parts of the world holding close to two billion plus people that are willing to pay much higher amounts than what you would be charging in India.

There’s a willingness to pay four times more in some cases. That’s the reason why a lot of these platforms are looking at Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe. They see a massive increase in revenue just by being overseas.

October 20 – 594th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 594th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 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!

Thought Leaders on Internet of Things: Ordr CEO Greg Murphy (Part 4)

Greg Murphy: What’s interesting is what organizations want. When they think about a managed service provider, they love to have one provider across their entire organization so that they won’t have a provider for one class of IoT devices and another provider for managed devices. In the next four or five years, we’re going to see more end-to-end offerings coming to market.

Sramana Mitra: That’s what I was thinking when you said that some of the IoT vendors are starting to provide managed security services. It would be better if they plug into a managed service provider’s portfolio.