Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that on a more granular basis. What year are we talking when you decided, two years in, to give up? Taso Du Val: That was probably around 2012. In 2012, we said, “Maybe we should figure something else out.” That was two years after we started the company. Sramana Mitra: Who’s

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Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about your thinking around that. It sounds like there’s a philosophy around being self-financed. You must be getting lots of calls from private equity all the time. Faisal Husain: Yes, we’ve been getting calls for several years. I have met all of them and am on fairly good terms with them. In

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There’s a lot of controversy around whether virtual teams scale. Taso Du Val has scaled a sizeable business using a virtual team. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal entrepreneurial journey.

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270th Roundtable Recording On July 30, 2015: With Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume

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Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where is your team? Is it all in New York? Faisal Husain: We started out of New Jersey. We had a development center in India from day one, because almost all of our clients were interested in leveraging the global delivery model to manage the cost in these projects. To your question about

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August 6 – 271st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 271st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 6, 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.

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Roundtable Recap: July 30 – Is Entrepreneurship Only About The Exit?

During this week’s roundtable, Christian Blume, CEO and co-founder of Cleverbridge was our guest from Germany, offering an European perspective to the question: “Is entrepreneurship only about the exit?” A very interesting discussion. The Social Coin As for the pitches, first up, Ivan Caballero from Barcelona, Spain, pitched The Social Coin, a CSR application that

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270th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 270th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 30, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.