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Thursday, June 11 – 263rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Jun 8th

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 11, 2015, 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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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jun 8th

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There is a trend among entrepreneurs wanting to keep running companies without seeking an exit. Certified Languages International (CLI) is one such evergreen company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where

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Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, Jun 7th

Sramana Mitra: What do you want to do? You’ve had one successful exit. You’re in a financially comfortable position. You’ve built a second company that is also bootstrapped and very profitable. You’re still fairly young. What do you want to do with your business? How are you thinking about your choices and options now? Fred

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Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Jun 6th

Sramana Mitra: What are the milestones of this business? By how much did it scale? How fast did it scale? What kind of strategy did you follow to make it grow? Fred Hsu: What we wanted to do at first was to basically get a good sense of the market and establish a few key

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262nd Roundtable Recording On June 4, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns With Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

Posted on Friday, Jun 5th

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

Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jun 5th

Sramana Mitra: In 2009, you were out. What did you do next? Fred Hsu: I moved out of LA. I married and had two kids. I raised them for a couple of years and got the entrepreneur itch again. Then in about 2010, I met up with an old college friend called Kai. He was

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June 11 – 263rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jun 5th

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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Roundtable Recap: June 4 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

Posted on Thursday, Jun 4th

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Jaspreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Druva, India’s flagship global product success story. Druva is not quite a unicorn company yet, but definitely a contender. Macpillar Technologies As for the pitches, first up, Sanjeev Sharma from Noida, India, pitched Macpillar

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