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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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then do a VC-Funded Venture: Cordial CEO Jeremy Swift (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I was recently talking to the founder of HubSpot. His observation when they started was that people were trying to do inbound marketing by starting blogs and then tying together some level of CRM. He said that nobody had an integrated solution, so he chose to build one. None of the categories that

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554th Roundtable Recording with Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 554th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures

Roundtable Recap: November 18 – Workshop on How to Teach Entrepreneurship

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discussing his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups. After that, we spent an hour on a workshop on how to teach entrepreneurship using the 1Mby1M methodology and case studies. You can listen to the recording of

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6 Udemy Courses on How To Build a Startup for an Early Exit

I’m a big advocate for building small, capital-efficient startups. Not all entrepreneurs need to chase Unicorns. Not all investors need to chase Unicorns. There are many more viable ideas for those smaller ventures and there are considerably more opportunities for their exits, which means cashing in earlier on your hard work.

Bootstrapping to Exit, Then do a VC-Funded Venture: Cordial CEO Jeremy Swift (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You were getting ready to start something else, but you wanted to develop some sales chops. Where did you do that? Jeremy Swift: I actually told this mentor that he’s crazy. I spent the next year or two warring against that. I finally came back around and this mentor said, “You got to

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554th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 554th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, November 18, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!