How You Can Plan for an Early Exit

Did you know that the vast majority of acquisitions happen in the sub $50 million valuation range? The best way to make money off such acquisitions is to build a startup with capital efficiency. If you can bootstrap, great. If not, raise small amounts of money so that you own a large percentage of the

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We Like Bootstrapping to Exit

This week, we’re discussing how the Age of AI is also the golden age of Bootstrapping, and also of Solo Entrepreneurship. Yes, you CAN and SHOULD bootstrap with a Paycheck. Yes, you CAN and SHOULD bootstrap to an Exit. Are you trying to do a startup as a SOLO entrepreneur? Your time has come.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Exit, Raised Money and Exited Again

Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser bootstrapped his first company to an exit. He venture funded his second company and exited after 10 years. He is about to launch his third. Read on, great story. Sramana Mitra: All right, Lance, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised?

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2025 Resolution: Bootstrap Your Startup to an Early Exit

Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with many bootstrapped entrepreneurs. I’ve helped several of them find Early Exits. I love working with self-financed startups and modestly capitalized ones that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who are

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 1)

Lance bootstrapped his first company to an exit. He venture funded his second company and exited after 10 years. He is about to launch his third. Read on, great story.

568th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Abinash Saikia, EnCloudEn (Part 1)

Abinash Saikia, Co-founder of EnCloudEn and former 1Mby1M Premium member, has successfully bootstrapped his venture to an exit and discusses the process in great depth. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the premise of EnCloudEn. Abinash Saikia: I have had a pretty good education from IIT Chennai

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then do a VC-Funded Venture: Cordial CEO Jeremy Swift (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Once you had the Series A, what was the next major inflection point? What strategic moves did you make to get to that? Jeremy Swift: I would say it was about just further refinement of what our ICP was and figuring out go-to-market too. That was a hard thing to navigate. It took

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then do a VC-Funded Venture: Cordial CEO Jeremy Swift (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first customer? Jeremy Swift: By scratching, clawing, begging, and pleading. We had a pretty great wealth of relationships. Sramana Mitra: That was my question. Did you go back to those relationships? When you have domain experience, you also have relationships in a category. It’s easier to sell into

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