Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped to Over $10M from Australia

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

This is another wonderful story of a founder who diligently scaled his startup. DNA Behavior Founder Hugh Massie had bootstrapped to over $10 Million in revenue when we spoke in 2017.

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?

Hugh Massie: I was born in Sydney, Australia. I was privately-educated at a very good private school. When I finished that, I earned a degree in Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales. Following that, I became a Chartered Accountant and worked with Arthur Andersen for 10 years in auditing, mainly in the tax area. I worked in the Sydney office and then in the Singapore and Thailand offices as well.

After 10 years, I wanted to go out on the street and become an entrepreneur. That was really the start of my entrepreneurial journey. I had always been an investor though, ever since the age of 20. As soon as I got my first job, I bought a house and got an investment rental property and was always doing things that were related to investing.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anupam Rastogi, General Partner of Emergent Ventures (Part 1)

Anupam Rastogi is General Partner at Emergent Ventures, a firm focused on B-to-B tech investments.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by getting you acquainted with our audience. Talk a bit about how you position your fund. Before that, give a little bit of your own background too.

Anupam Rastogi: I’ve been in the technology space for a very long time now. I studied Computer Science back in the 90s. I grew up in India and came over to the US. I started a career on the operating side, research, and then product management at larger companies and a couple of startups. These stints eventually had good outcomes.

Building a Capital-Efficient, Highly Scalable Smart City IoT Venture: LYT CEO Timothy Menard (Part 1)

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Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, born, and raised? What kind of background are you from?

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Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2022

This feature from Bloomberg by Mark Gurman covers the highlights and implications of the Worldwide Developers Conference last week where Apple unveiled a new version of CarPlay among other things. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Power2Motivate to $80M from Canada

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

Adding to our incredible roster of stories of entrepreneurs who have bootstrapped decisively, CEO Rob Purdy’s story as shared with me in 2017 is an incredible journey of precise execution.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and what kind of background?

Rob Purdy: I was born in Ontario, Canada. Our family is very blue collar. I grew up in an environment centered around a steady out by 7 in the morning and home at 3:30 kind of routine. We were in an area of the city where General Motors dominated the local landscape. Everyone in our neighborhood worked for that company. It was an interesting background and a great lifestyle to grow up in. It also taught me that I wanted to get outside of that and move into a different environment – more entrepreneurial and less structured.

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June 16: 579th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 579th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 16, 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!

Roundtable Recap: June 9 – Discussion of India’s Startup Journey

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Janam Mehta, Partner at Campus Fund and Venture Investments at JSW Ventures discussing the progress of the Indian startup ecosystem.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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578th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 578th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 9, 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!