Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 2018, are you still self-financed? Sarva Srinivasan: Yes. At the end of 2018, we did a Series A.  Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise? Sarva Srinivasan: $10 million.

Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have a wonderful positioning because anything that has a compliance angle to it has a very mission-critical purchase cycle. You must have experienced pretty high-velocity customer building. Sarva Srinivasan: That’s correct. In parallel, we started building EZOPS. As part of our engagement, we were talking with the clients and their challenges. Oftentimes,

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You were doing this out of Chicago? Sarva Srinivasan: New Jersey. All three of us are from New Jersey. We started off in a small office back in January 2014. Sramana Mitra: All these 20 clients, you serviced with just the three of you?

November 4 – 552nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 4, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can either one of you summarize Bikram’s background? Sarva Srinivasan: Bikram spent most of his time in banking. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and then went on to work at McKinsey for a year or so. He then worked at Lehman, Goldman, and Citi. He comes from a background

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551st Roundtable Recording with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 551st 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

Roundtable Recap: October 28 – Telling a Startup Story Through Financial Metrics

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sandeep Sardana, Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures. We had a terrific discussion on how we each look for a startup story through financial metrics. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 551st 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures If you

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November 4 – Workshop on How to Build Communities of Entrepreneurs EVERYWHERE

When we first announced the 1Mby1M mission of helping a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue, we received a tremendous amount of interest from Sramana’s global community of readers. That was January 2010.  We created the 1Mby1M Ambassadors program to understand and support the needs of startup ecosystems around the world. In

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