Roundtable Recap: January 6 – Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Products Using Services

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. Deepak was in the 1Mby1M program, and I had introduced him to Qualys. We reviewed his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction.

CMD

As for entrepreneur pitch, we had Bijay Mitra and his team from Bhubaneswar, India, pitch CMD, a services company that aims to transform into a product business.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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