321st Roundtable Recording On September 15, 2016: With Investorist Founder Jon Ellis

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When did you launch Wiredrive? Taylor Tyng: Wiredrive was officially founded as a sole business in 2008, but its story probably started around 2003. Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the story? Taylor Tyng: We got to a point where we had a lot of legacy issues. We were trying to move from a web  design

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Roundtable Recap: September 15 – Raising Equity from Customers

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Jon Ellis, Founder of Investorist, who has raised ALL his equity financing from customers. This interview is very much worth listening to for those looking for alternative financing strategies besides Venture Capital. Tiger Digitech As for the pitches, first up pitching, Joseph George from Mumbai, India, pitched Tiger

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321st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 321st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 15, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

321st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 321st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 15, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In the chronology, where are we in now? Taylor Tyng: I’m going back and forth within that. We’re probably around the mid-2000s. Sramana Mitra: What is the next major strategic move and what year? Taylor Tyng: As I mentioned, we’ve never been venture-backed. We ran two businesses side by side — the design agency

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of customers were adopting video advertising at that time? Who were these early adopters of video? Taylor Tyng: A lot of them were post-production companies and commercial production companies. In particular, post-production companies were very interesting early adopters for us. They’re built around pipeline workflows for technologies so they understood the investments

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Taylor has bootstrapped Wiredrive over a 17-year period to about $10 million. Today, he has options ahead to grow organically or raise money. Either way, an interesting journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were

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