Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Vacasa Co-Founder Cliff Johnson (Part 2)

Cliff Johnson: After law school, I ended up working at a tax firm in Colorado and gained a lot of experience there. I worked with a lot of small businesses and mid-sized businesses, which was very invigorating for me. I was interested in tax law but I was always more interested in their business story

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did you start with? Were you bootstrapping the company? Sunny Singh: Yes, I took about 18 to 20 credit cards. That was seed money for Edifecs. I had no concept of VCs. I was not business savvy. That was how Edifecs got started. I’ve never run a business before. Sramana Mitra: How

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Vacasa Co-Founder Cliff Johnson (Part 1)

Vacasa has bootstrapped to scale in the crowded vacation rental space. Read how! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Cliff Johnson: I actually have a fairly unique background, at least for the US anyway. I was born in New

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to when you finished your Microsoft gig? Sunny Singh: 1996. Sramana Mitra: The Internet is now in full swing and you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Within that year that you worked at Microsoft, you figured out what it was that you were going to do

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267th Roundtable Recording On July 9, 2015: Future of Higher Education with edX CEO Anant Agarwal

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

July 16 – 268th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 268th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 16, 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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Bootstrap the First Venture, Raise Money for the Second: cVidya CEO Alon Aginsky (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I think your point is also that there are different kinds of employees. There are certain people who are startup type of employees. Alon Aginsky: Right. You have to be very precise about the people you hire. Most of the people that are in cVidya are veterans. Those are the people who join you for

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Roundtable Recap: July 9 – The Future of Higher Education with Anant Agarwal

During today’s roundtable, we had Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX and my former professor at MIT, as our special guest. The discussion on the future of higher education was wide ranging and comprehensive, complete with startup ideas and analysis of entrepreneurial ventures within education. Definitely worth a look, if the subject interests you. Blackpepper As

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