549th Roundtable Recording with Jukka Alanen, PagerDuty

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 549th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs with Jukka Alanen, PagerDuty

Roundtable Recap: October 7 – Exit Strategy – Further Guidance

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jukka Alanen, SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at PagerDuty, to discuss Exit Strategy. V-REAP For the entrepreneur pitch, we had Yugandhar Dodda from Hyderabad, India, pitch V-REAP, a rural skill development social venture. eelspace Then David Orok from Uyo, Nigeria, pitched eelspace, a freelancer marketplace

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549th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 549th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 7, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the pricing? Sameer Maggon: The first offering that we sold was for about $10,000 a year.  Sramana Mitra: How did that business ramp? When you start off with a bootstrapping with services model, your services revenues far outpace product revenues. Gradually, it starts to tilt.

Thursday, October 7 – 549th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 549th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 7, 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 to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What go-to-market strategy are you following? Is it a SaaS product that you go to market with? Sameer Maggon: SearchStax, at a high level, is a search company. We offer Search-as-a-Service. It’s a SaaS/PaaS offering that is provided for mid-market to large enterprises on a subscription basis.  Sramana Mitra: So it’s a SaaS

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Excellently navigated journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background? Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer Science from Pune. Then I

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548th Roundtable Recording with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 548th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai