Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did the acquisition happen? James Cramer: We would occasionally get solicitations from bankers. We would always entertain it to get a sense of which company was worth it and what was going on in terms of acquisitions. One day, I got an email from a banker in New York that said, “I

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Help me out with one piece of this story. In an entrepreneur journey, the first time you’re doing it without personal money is a different ball game than when you have made money and are doing it a second time. By the time you come to Zimit, you had money. It’s a different

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?

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540th Roundtable Recording with Itai Sadan, Duda

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 540th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Itai Sadan, Duda

Roundtable Recap: July 29 – How Itai Sadan Bootstrapped Duda First with a Paycheck and then Raised $100 Million

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Itai Sadan, Co-founder and CEO of Duda. I first met Itai back in 2013 and started getting to know his story. It’s a compelling case study of bootstrapping with a paycheck and then raising significant funding to scale over more than a decade. Escrow Protocol As

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540th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 540th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 29, 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!

540th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 20 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 540th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 20 minutes, on Thursday, July 29, 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!

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 7)

Ben Hodson: What we realized is that customers coming to us were for customization and choice. Because we’d built the software to be so customizable with all these integrations, we now had a full product solution that we could start scaling. We saw tremendous growth in 2018. We did over 100% in our growth. In

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