Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to a VC-funded SaaS Marketplace

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Booksy Co-founder and CEO Stefan Batory started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he’s running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS and marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey! Here is our conversation from early 2020, plus you can listen to our

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Booksy Co-founder and CEO Stefan Batory started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he’s running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS and marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey! Here is our conversation from early 2020, plus you can listen to our podcast

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529th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Stefan Batory, Booksy

Stefan Batory is Co-founder and CEO of Booksy, a SaaS-enabled marketplace venture.

Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You are in Chicago and Warsaw? Stefan Batory: Today we have offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa, and San Antonio in the US. We have offices in Warsaw and a few other cities across the country. We are also in Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, and in Madrid. These are the markets that we

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstraps Using Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company

Booksy CEO Stefan Batory started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he’s running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS + marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you’re from, where you were born, raised, and in what

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Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you acquire this very fragmented customer base? Stefan Batory: Initially, we weren’t been thinking about that because we were supposed to work with that partner from southeast Florida who was supposed to acquire clients for us.

Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I thought you were trying to reposition the taxi company to doing a marketplace. How did you get to the software house? Stefan Batory: I did not reposition the taxi business. I just kept it growing. At the same time, I was also running a small division of the software development house, which

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Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 3)

Stefan Batory: At the same time, I was preparing for a Marathon race on the Sands. It’s a marathon across the Sahara desert. You have to carry a backpack with all your food and supplies to survive in the desert. I started having some aches and pains in my legs, so I had to see

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