Thursday, September 17 – 501st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 501st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 17, 2020, 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

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Bootstrapping with Services: Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2019? How much did you do? Jake Weaver: That was the $5 million year. That was the breakout from where we had been before. For anybody that talks about valuations, a professional services firm is not valued as a product company. Even though revenue was staying the same, the value

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500th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sramana Mitra, 1Mby1M

Sramana Mitra, Founder of One Million by One Million, reflects on the 500th 1Mby1M Roundtable as a celebration of normalcy. You can listen to the entire 500th Roundtable recording on 1Mby1M.com.

Bootstrapping with Services: Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Just so you know, we have a whole methodology in our program around Bootstrapping Using Services. It’s something that we do a lot of in the program. It’s something we have numerous case studies on. We have encountered what you’re talking about several times before. It works. I think you will go on

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Bootstrapping with Services: Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the productization? What was the revenue level as a services company before you started productization? Jake Weaver: As a services company, we had just over $4 million in revenue when the change started to happen. We had stepped into the product market, but we had made a smaller business solution.

Bootstrapping with Services: Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The projects you were doing were basically SharePoint implementation projects? Jake Weaver: Yes. Ten years ago, SharePoint was being used for a lot of stuff. People would build intranet networks on it. They would also build business process solutions on it. They would even build extranets with a public-facing side.

September 17 – 501st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 501st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 17, 2020, 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

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Bootstrapping with Services: Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver (Part 1)

We continue our coverage of bootstrapping using services. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?