Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like when you did the cloud strategy, you almost did it with a different product. Even though the technology was the same, the positioning was quite different. The board technology was for the cloud software. Paroon Chadha: As an organization, we made the jump from being a Windows company to a

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Thursday, May 10 – 399th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 399th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 10, 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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Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 5)

Paroon Chadha: We started to see some cross-pollination. We were pulling some leads that we didn’t really plan for. It was a little bit organic. We needed to move out of financial because the financial sector was stalling. We found ourselves selling in hospitals with some success. Then we ran into a very interesting founder

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Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 4)

Paroon Chadha: If one has to learn a business, you’d rather start out from where your foundation is good. Raising capital and accelerating based on your balance sheet is a thing you can do anytime. If you have a solid core business, it’ll happen. The reverse of that is not possible. If you fund your

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Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: This was 150 users through that credit union customer? Paroon Chadha: Yes. Sramana Mitra: You had one anchor customer and you had a software that was receiving feedback from the beginning. Paroon Chadha: Chris was writing code, and I was out selling. We didn’t fear anything at that time. I wish I could

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May 10 – 399th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 399th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 10, 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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398th Roundtable Recording On May 3, 2018: With Jennifer Carolan, Reach Capital

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Bootstrapping from Indiana: Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha (Part 2)

Paroon Chadha: You are never going to be surrounded by so many super smart and super open people in your life. When you’re at school, there are a lot of engineers and computer scientists. There are a lot of people who are good at math. You can pretty much come up with any idea and

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