Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 2)

Jeremy Young: I was teaching HTML at the university at that time. There was a guy in my class, Steve Jenkins, who registered the domain name windows95.com before Microsoft was even thinking about the Internet. If you remember, Windows didn’t even have the web browser in their launch edition of Windows 95. He was building a website

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Thursday, Feb. 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

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293rd Roundtable Recording On February 11, 2016

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:  

Roundtable Recap: February 11 – Plug Your Knowledge Gaps In Methodology ASAP

During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs spanning Israel, Italy and India. Bontact First up, Baruch Kogan from Bnei Brak, Israel, pitched Bontact, a live customer support wizard that is designed to power SMB web sites with live chat, WhatsApp, and other messaging app based instant support. My read: SMB owners and CEOs need

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Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a wonderful story of a serial bootstrapper who has built a wonderful e-commerce business similar to Groupon, but with no outside money. Sramana Mitra: Let’s got back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and

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293rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 293rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

293rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 293rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At the end of 2015, where did you finish in terms of revenue level and in terms of other business metrics? Dara Greaney: Last year, we did $54 million. That was 15% growth. We’ve been profitable every year. We shipped a record 220,000 shipments last year. I think we sold about 22,000 different

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