Cloud Stocks: Analysis of IBM’s Neudesic Acquisition

IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently announced its first-quarter results that continued to outpace market expectations. The company remains focused on growing through acquisitions as it added another private player to its portfolio. IBM’s performance had been declining for a while, but it appears to have made a rebound with the company delivering three straight quarters of positive growth.

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From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur with Exit: ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There is a tool that I use when we teach our entrepreneurs about building a sales funnel. We call it pain extraction questions. When you start discussions, you ask questions about a pain. What is your first pain extraction question?

Mahendra Alladi: How often do you get bit by a production bug? How many escalations do you take because of delayed release cycles? The answers are also very common. This is something that is a burning issue. I don’t really have to sell a lot. The problem is easily acknowledged.

Solo Founder to Funded FinTech Startup Scaling Rapidly: Torpago CEO Brent Jackson (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you need equity financing or were you doing it completely on the basis of that seed round and these lending facilities?

Brent Jackson: In between, we did do another seed round for $2.4 million in equity fund.

Sramana Mitra: This was from a VC?

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of BlackLine’s FourQ Systems Acquisition

According to a recent report, the global accounting software market is set to grow at 9.64% CAGR from $7.04 billion in 2021. Recently, financial software provider, BlackLine (NASDAQ: BL) announced its quarterly results that surpassed market expectations.

From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur with Exit: ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you primarily go after the large enterprises?

Mahendra Alladi: Of late, we focus more on the large enterprises, but it’s a mix.

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to a million-dollar ARR?

Mahendra Alladi: Within the first year.

Sramana Mitra: You continue to bootstrap?

Best of Bootstrapping: More Bootstrapping to Exit Case Studies

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

I hope you read my article Bootstrapping to Exit. As a follow-up, let me offer you some case studies.

From Freshworks Has Acquired Nine Capital Efficient Startups:

All the nine acquisitions by Freshworks have been for undisclosed amounts. Cloud-based video collaboration platform 1CLICK, acquired in 2015, was founded in 2012 and had raised an undisclosed seed round from Blume Ventures and The Chennai Angels in 2014.

Online social discovery platform Frilp, acquired in 2015, was founded in 2012 and had raised $500K in funding from angel investors, including Freshdesk CEO Girish Mathrubootham in August 2014 and an undisclosed venture round with Microsoft Accelerator. It had over 100K users.

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Solo Founder to Funded FinTech Startup Scaling Rapidly: Torpago CEO Brent Jackson (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Who was doing the software work?

Brent Jackson: We have a team in India. I’m a sole founder. One of the investors at the last company had a lot of ties to consultants in India. We used them to build the first prototype.

Sramana Mitra: What about the earliest customers? Did you go back to the people you were working with?

Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Fastly’s Fanout Acquisition

According to a recent report, the content delivery network (CDN) market was estimated at $11.76 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 27% annually to reach $49.61 billion by 2026. Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) recently reported its quarterly results that surpassed the market’s expectations.