Bootstrapping to $7 Million: Constellix CEO Steven Job (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the next step in turning this into a real business?  Steven Job: Are you asking me how I took it from there to a million? My way of doing it probably wasn’t the smartest way. My way was to rinse, wash, and repeat. It was doing it over and over again

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Bootstrapping to $7 Million: Constellix CEO Steven Job (Part 4)

Steven Job: I would answer any questions. When I answered those questions, I had my name and the name DNS Made Easy on the footer. I would also recommend my services there. It was hours and hours of answering questions and putting my name out there. I remember when someone said, “What are DNS providers?

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Bootstrapping from Guwahati: Anjan Pathak, CTO and Co-Founder of Vantage Circle (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about Guwahati. What was it like building this company in Guwahati? You must have a very loyal employee base, right? Anjan Pathak: Yes, that is the best part. Employee loyalty is high. The attrition rate is low. In the last six months, only one or two people have left,

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Bootstrapping from Guwahati: Anjan Pathak, CTO and Co-Founder of Vantage Circle (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do the US companies find you or how do you find them? Anjan Pathak: Three years ago, we started content marketing. We were not sure how to market. We had questions in our minds, “From Guwahati, how do we reach out to the world?” What we found was that there is this

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Bootstrapping to $7 Million: Constellix CEO Steven Job (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were you doing this out of Washington DC?  Steven Job: Yes, I used to live in a town called Centerville, a suburb of DC. By 2006, it was at a point where it was making several hundred thousand dollars a year, so I hired my first employees who still work with us today.

522nd Roundtable Recording on March 11, 2021: With Laurel Touby, Supernode Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 522nd 1Mby1M Roundtable March 11, 2021: With Laurel Touby, Supernode Ventures

Bootstrapping to $7 Million: Constellix CEO Steven Job (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year are we in now?  Steven Job: While I was working those crazy hours, I developed a service called DNS Made Easy. It’s still around today. At that time, I was creating it as a side project where I could make a little extra revenue. It was a passion project. It all

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Bootstrapping from Guwahati: Anjan Pathak, CTO and Co-Founder of Vantage Circle (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many companies do you have today? Anjan Pathak: In India, we almost have all the big IT companies as customers except TCS and IBM. Tata has selected us as their preferred vendor.  Sramana Mitra: What revenue level are you at right now?