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Bootstrapping from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 1)
Alex tells the story of a bootstrapped company from London that has gone all the way to $10 million in just over 10 years and is now looking to scale further, perhaps with outside capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Tell us where you’re from, where you were born, raised,
Bootstrapping Lessons: FairWarning CEO Kurt Long (Part 1)
Kurt has tried different permutations and combinations of bootstrapping, several of them successfully. Listen to his perspective on each of those. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Kurt Long: I was raised in Clearwater, Florida. I grew up in
August 20 – 272nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 272nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 20, 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 of your questions.
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How has your revenue ramped from the 2007 time frame to 2015? Where are you now? Chris Grandi: We’re growing over 50% per year. In year one, we started our revenue with less than a million dollars. You grow a 100% when your revenue is smaller. Our revenue is significantly bigger now but we’re
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is it about the hedge fund space in terms of work flows or virtualization? What specifically is different in that space versus other verticals? Chris Grandi: There are really two things that make the hedge fund space different. One is the level of service. Because of what hedge fund managers do and
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was going to be the new company? What did you find that warrants doing another company? Chris Grandi: This is one thing that I always tell the entrepreneurs I speak to. You always hear about entrepreneurs who start a company when they’re super young and don’t have a lot of experience, and
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Chris Grandi: 2001. At the end of 2001, I was essentially committed to taking off six months to figure out what I was going to do about starting my next company. Despite not making money in that first entrepreneurial endeavor, I was committed to starting my own
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the next move after Maxim? Chris Grandi: I took a pretty divergent turn. I thought that maybe I wanted to be in Wall Street. I joined the Goldman Sachs Associate program out of Harvard Business School and joined their fixed income group. I was an associate in that group specifically focusing
