Bootstrapping by Services from Wisconsin: SignalWire CEO Anthony Minessale (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year is this happening? Anthony Minessale: 2002. Sramana Mitra: What was the competitive landscape like? Were RingCentral and Grasshopper around? Anthony Minessale: It was right before that. We were alone in the wild when we were doing this.

Bootstrapping by Services from Wisconsin: SignalWire CEO Anthony Minessale (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Anthony is building a very interesting programmable communication platform company that has its roots in Wisconsin. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Best of Bootstrapping: How Algo.ai CEO Amjad Hussain Bootstrapped using Services from Michigan

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I am always thrilled to see great entrepreneurship in various parts of the world that are off-center. Well, Algo.ai CEO Amjad Hussain’s journey is a great one from Detroit. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

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Bootstrapping with Services from Michigan: Amjad Hussain, CEO of Algo.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How big is the team in Detroit? Amjad Hussain: Our total team size, including engineering, data science, and implementations, is a little over 50 people. We do not have any subcontracting or offshoring going on. Since we live in a very competitive and global landscape, we have to work in a very efficient

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Bootstrapping with Services from Michigan: Amjad Hussain, CEO of Algo.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: At the very beginning, when you got this customer, what did you do for them? What did you propose to them that you were going to do that got you that customer? Amjad Hussain: They had a need for a very specific warehouse management application for complex product categories that had a lot

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Bootstrapping with Services from Michigan: Amjad Hussain, CEO of Algo.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You came to Michigan straightaway? Amjad Hussain: Yes, just because of where I landed my first job. I came to Detroit and I have lived here for 23 years. This is the longest that I have lived in any given place. Sramana Mitra: What job did you come with? Amjad Hussain: Since all

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Bootstrapping with Services from Michigan: Amjad Hussain, CEO of Algo.ai (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  I am always thrilled to see great entrepreneurship in various parts of the world that are off-center. Well, here’s a great one from Detroit. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll tell you exactly what happened in your case. You did a Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy. You were going out to raise Series A with $2 million in revenue. You went out to raise Series B with close to $10 million in revenue. These are funding situations where a company that

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