Thursday, May 3 – 398th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 398th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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 questions. Others can register

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let me double-click down a little bit on the team issue. You have built this company from North Carolina? John Stewart: Yes, from the ground up. Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what is the consideration of your company today. What has worked and not worked in building this company from North

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the pricing model? John Stewart: It’s based on per user per month. Sramana Mitra: What is the average deal size when you’re selling to one of your clients? John Stewart: It varies by segment. We have as little as a single license at a non-profit to as many as thousands at

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Was there a specific channel through which you were acquiring customers? Where were you getting the leads from? John Stewart: We built relationships at the ground level at Salesforce. As they were selling deals, especially in the small business segment, they needed integrators who were willing to take those deals and roll out

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Why build on top of Salesforce? John Stewart: We had built our MRP system on top of it when I had the manufacturing company. Salesforce’s ecosystem was really starting to explode. It was everywhere. I knew how to build a services business very well. It seemed to be that it was less specialized

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May 3 – 398th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 398th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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 questions. Others can register

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396th Roundtable Recording On April 26, 2018

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  John and his co-founder have built MapAnything from Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. They have now raised over $40 million in funding, proving that you can build sizable VC-funded SaaS businesses from anywhere. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where

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