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Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Given that you know nothing about me and you’re showing me something that doesn’t work for me at all, how do you take a prospect like me and turn me into somebody who can actually find useful things on your site? Jeremy Young: You would have to give us your email address and
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: RJ Metrics CEO Robert Moore (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I presume you guys started the company with your own money? Robert Moore: We did. It was not a lot of money. It was about $10,000 in total between the two of us. Sramana Mitra: Who built the software? Who wrote the code? Robert Moore: I wrote the original version in my attic.
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: There is a company that we have done a case study on in Utah called Steals.com that’s in the baby product category and that does one deal a day. Jeremy Young: Exactly. This was before any of those companies existed. We’ve been doing this for almost 10 years now. Sramana Mitra: When you
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: RJ Metrics CEO Robert Moore (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. True to the 1M/1M mantra, here is yet another story of a high-growth SaaS company that was bootstrapped first, and then has gone on to raise $22 million. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 5)
Jeremy Young: The second company was called Uberplay. That was a company that was going to take the best games out of Europe and trying to get the license for English-speaking markets, produce these games in China or Europe, and distribute them in the United States. We went over there and signed a lot of
February 18 – 294th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 294th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 18, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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 to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your involvement in that company and how long you were involved in that company. Jeremy Young: I was involved for probably a couple of years. I ended up selling my interest back to them. Sramana Mitra: In what capacity? Jeremy Young: I came to them with the idea. They
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was the premise of that partnership? Jeremy Young: Windows95.com was owned by Steve Jenkins. He was my partner in Virtual Servers. He pushed traffic from Windows95 to my company. He basically had advertisements for the web hosting product on his website. Sramana Mitra: How big did the company grow to be? Jeremy