263rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Besides that differentiator, how do you acquire customers? Kristin Quinlan: A lot of our growth has been through outreach from our sales team as well as from leveraging the relationships with one entity and being recommended to others. We are really good at what we do and we have got an exceedingly strong

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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You came on board in 2000. The business was about $1.9 million. Kristin Quinlan: Yes. In 2001, it was about $1.9 million. We had a slow incline. We’ve never had a year that has gone down. Every year has been an increase from the previous year. The first early years were very slow.

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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We’re doing an Entrepreneur Journey story. We’ve got to focus on a bit more chronological telling of the story of how you put one foot before the other. I realized that you didn’t become the CEO of the company until 2006 but I do need to capture some of the beginning story of

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

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)

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)

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)

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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