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$200 Million in Revenue Catering to the Bottom of the Pyramid: Issa Asad, CEO of Q Link Wireless (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jan 29th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a fascinating journey of an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped a $200 million business catering to poor people in the United States selling cellular phones and connections, and monetizing the data through advertising. In India, Reliance Jio has a similar strategy, by the way, for

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Bootstrapped First, Raise Money Later: Manick Bhan, CEO of Rukkus (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 7th

Manick Bhan: Just a few years after that, you had these rumblings of the next big tech boom. When Facebook went public, it was an incredible experience to see a company that had grown up quietly and become so huge and valuable. At the same time, that same roommate who infected me with the finance bug ended

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Bootstrapped First, Raise Money Later: Manick Bhan, CEO of Rukkus (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jun 6th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  “My journey was as unexceptional as you can imagine,” says Manick, in describing how he got to $1 million Annual Revenue Rate in transactions before raising financing. Read on for the whole story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by going back to your very beginnings. I want

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