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Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, May 24th

Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the story? Shane Evans: I was quite enjoying my time there. It turned into more of a big company. Once again, I found myself yearning for something that was a little bit different. I think it was late 2004 when I quit. During my time there, I had focused on

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, May 23rd

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Shane has built a 140-people virtual team-based business from Ireland. Very interesting view into a different part of the world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, May 21st

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like at this point, you have decided on the positioning and the target market. You started generating revenue. You hit the million dollar mark. What’s the next major inflection point? Mikko Valimaki: One important point in the early days was, we were also talking with venture capital. When we got the

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, May 20th

Sramana Mitra: You basically were putting embedded code on the devices for filesystem management. Mikko Valimaki: Yes. Looking back, I think we made the right choice. We were able to grow really fast in the selected Asian market. When we were in the open source stage, I would say that from the early revenue, it

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June 9 – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, May 20th

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

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307th Roundtable Recording On May 19, 2016: With Anand Daniel, Accel Partners

Posted on Friday, May 20th

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 307th Roundtable Recording On May 19, 2016: With Anand Daniel, Accel Partners

Roundtable Recap: May 19 – Tackling Medical Education Effectively

Posted on Thursday, May 19th

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Anand Daniel, Partner with Accel Partners, who discussed Accel India’s investment strategy at length. i-Human Patients As for the pitches, first up, 1M/1M Premium member Norm Wu from Sunnyvale, CA, pitched i-Human Patients. The company did $2.2M in bookings in 2015 for its SaaS medical simulation product selling

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, May 19th

Sramana Mitra: Can you highlight what was different in the commercial product versus the open source product? From a product positioning point of view, why would somebody who was interested in the open source product buy this one? Mikko Valimaki: I would say there are three reasons. Some of our biggest customers were very hesitant

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