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bootstrapping with a paycheck
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Katie had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. More stories like this can be found in my Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book.
Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Were you working with other clients? Of course, you had deep insight into the problem with your experience but did you also work with other clients at that time? Ross Mason: The way it came about was in 2003, I decided to leave the company I was working at and go traveling through
Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 1)
Ross bootstrapped Mulesoft with a paycheck and also with services. Now, the company has raised over $130 million—the last round at an $800 million valuation. Very interesting story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were your born and raised? Ross Mason: I was born
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How much did you do in your first year? Steve Liu: I honestly do not remember. It’s been so long. Over the first few years, we quickly got to a couple of thousand users. During that time, we enhanced the product and started increasing the price. Pretty quickly, we got a lot of
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You programmed your PalmPilot to have that available as a mobile application. You presented at this conference and everybody wanted it. Steve Liu: Pretty much, yes. That was when we figured out we might have something. A few months later, we put up a booth. I was a physician. I just wanted to be
