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Bootstrapped First, Raise Money Later: Manick Bhan, CEO of Rukkus (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How did you get your MVP out? Before you got any seed funding, I take it that you had to get an MVP launched and get some customers going. Manick Bhan: Yes. Sramana Mitra: That’s how the industry works. There are exceptions. Usually, first-time entrepreneurs are not exceptions. I’m just trying to see
Bootstrapped First, Raise Money Later: Manick Bhan, CEO of Rukkus (Part 3)
Manick Bhan: At a high level, the preparation included me learning how to code. I had spent about nine months on that. I spent a lot of time in my apartment staring at a blinking cursor on a black background. Every time I hit an error, I put that error into Google to figure out what
Bootstrapped First, Raise Money Later: Manick Bhan, CEO of Rukkus (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. “My journey was as unexceptional as you can imagine,” says Manick, in describing how he got to $1 million Annual Revenue Rate in transactions before raising financing. Read on for the whole story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by going back to your very beginnings. I want
June 9th – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 308th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 9, 2016, 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 to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to hit the $1 million mark? Shane Evans: I think we would have come just under it in 2013. In 2014, we would have been $2 million. Sramana Mitra: In 2013, you were at $1 million revenue. At that point, what was the distribution between professional services
Thursday, June 9 – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 308th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 9, 2016, 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 to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I know quite a bit about that kind of work because I did a lead generation software company earlier in my career that required lots of scraping and cleaning. It’s quite complicated and it’s very domain-specific. I am very aware of how very complicated this is. Did you launch this with any financing
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What’s the next move? Shane Evans: Let me give a background about what happened at Mydeco so the next move will make a lot more sense. As part of the platform we were trying to build, there was a big e-commerce part. Part of that e-commerce component was we needed some data from