Bootstrapping Course: Why is Bootstrapping Critical?

The need to raise venture capital is a myth. Many successful businesses start by using a bootstrap model. Entrepreneurship does not equal financing.

If you are enjoying this course, check out 1Mby1M Basic, our curriculum-only option.

The 1Mby1M Curriculum has over 1000 case studies of real-life success stories. 

If you’re trying to assess why you’re getting rejections, use the 1Mby1M Self-Assessment.

We support your fund-raising efforts through personal introductions to investors.

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Bootstrapping Course: What is Bootstrapping?

Bootstrapping means building a business without external financing. See how this differs from businesses funded by investors.

If you are enjoying this course, check out 1Mby1M Basic, our curriculum-only option.

The 1Mby1M Curriculum has over 1000 case studies of real-life success stories. 

If you’re trying to assess why you’re getting rejections, use the 1Mby1M Self-Assessment.

We support your fund-raising efforts through personal introductions to investors.

Bootstrapping Course: About Sramana

If you are enjoying this course, check out 1Mby1M Basic, our curriculum-only option.

The 1Mby1M Curriculum has over 1000 case studies of real-life success stories. 

If you’re trying to assess why you’re getting rejections, use the 1Mby1M Self-Assessment.

We support your fund-raising efforts through personal introductions to investors.

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Lily Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify (Part 1)

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

Lily has built a virtual company with zero employees, all freelancers and scaled it without outside financing.

Read on for more.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Relatient CEO Michele Perry (Part 1)

Direct and efficient patient communication is key, we discover in the age of pandemic.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Relatient and to yourself.

Michele Perry: I’m the CEO here at Relatient. I’ve been the CEO since August 2017. A little bit about Relatient, we’re a healthcare IT company focused on patient outreach. We allow our providers to relate to their patients. 

Facebook Explores Payments and Commerce

Facebook’s (Nasdaq: FB) battle with privacy concerns are far from over. The company recently announced that it had settled a class action lawsuit by paying $550 million in fine, and it was also slapped with a $5 billion fine for privacy abuses by the Federal Trade Commission. Despite this, its quarterly results surpassed market expectations. Facebook is also looking at expanding its service offerings to e-commerce and payments to drive growth.

Cloud Stocks: Top 20 for 2020

The year 2019 has come to an end and here we do a review of the best performing cloud stocks of 2019 and the most promising for 2020. The criteria for making this list are a strong strategy or performance in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robust Developer Ecosystems.

Literati Reading List

In 2016, I started a literary group focused on serious literary works. Here is the list of books for our Caravanserai Literati.