488th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 488th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 4 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 by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of your business is coming from these app marketplaces? Florin Cornianu: A big part right now depends on partners. Sramana Mitra: What percentage? Florin Cornianu: Half.

Bootstrapping by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You said it took you two years to get to $60,000 annual revenue. That’s 2010 then, right? Florin Cornianu: It took us all the way to 2014 to get to a million dollars in revenue.  Sramana Mitra: Besides Google SEO for customer acquisition, was there anything else that you did for customer acquisition?

Thursday, June 4 – 488th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 488th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 4, 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 by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the product that you got together? Florin Cornianu: It was a very small script that allowed you to build a contact form and put it on your website. Back then, there wasn’t any Google Forms. We thought about automating the creation of contact forms. It turned out to be a product.

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Bootstrapping by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  You may have been reading our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, Florin has built a $6M SaaS business using this methodology with just $1M in funding. What’s more, he has done it entirely from Romania and sells to largely a US

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June 4 – 488th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 488th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 4, 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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Roundtable Recap: May 28 – Alternative Financing for Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Christian Czernich, Founder and CEO at Round2 Capital Partners, a firm that is experimenting with an alternative financing model. Prometeo As for entrepreneur pitches, Jonathan Mentz from Cape Town, South Africa, pitched Prometeo, a risk analysis and monitoring solution. Hustlebeez Next Bing Huang from Sunnyvale, California,

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