Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Talk to me a bit about doing this in Tucson, Arizona. What are the dynamics? What is the community like and to what extent are you leveraging that community’s pros and cons? Joshua Strebel: In the early days, we were based in Phoenix first. We moved to Tucson about four years ago.

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 4)

Joshua Strebel: We really enjoy those complex, harder, and out-of-the-normal WordPress workflow cases. There’s also this site called bringatrailer.com. These are a couple of entrepreneurs that probably invite you for one of these interviews. They started with a little online auto auction site and now they’ve gone on to become one of the premier private

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433rd Roundtable Recording on February 28, 2019: With Rebecca Kaden, Union Square Ventures

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the point where you hit the $1 million annual revenue run rate mark? Joshua Strebel: I think that was about 2011 to 2012. So, it took about two and a half to three years to get to a million a year. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. With a bootstrapped company, that’s

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Roundtable Recap: February 28 – Pay Attention to Physical Experiences, Not Just Digital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rebecca Kaden, General Partner at Union Square Ventures. We discussed her firm’s capital efficient investment thesis and debated the pros and cons of blitzscaling. Wellnesys As for entrepreneur pitches, up first Muralidhar Somisetty from Bangalore, India, pitched Wellnesys, a digital powered yoga mat to help corporations offer

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433rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 433rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 28, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

433rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 433rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 28, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were some of the mistakes? Joshua Strebel: Not really knowing how to market. For designers and developers, I think it’s so easy to build a product. It’s really hard to get that product into the hands of your customers. If you recall in that time period, when Twitter and Facebook were new,

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