Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping to over $5M: Vladimir Gendelman, CEO of Company Folders (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you recover from that situation where you lost traffic? How did you come back from that? Vladimir Gendelman: We also got hit at the beginning of all those penalties. There wasn’t much information out there. We hired a company. It was a digital marketing company that had some knowledge of this.

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613th Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 613th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 27, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2555 625 9503 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

613th Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 613th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 27, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2555 625 9503 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping to over $5M: Vladimir Gendelman, CEO of Company Folders (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were you offering people to buy? Vladimir Gendelman: I started selling online right away. The very first version of the website was very basic. I just came up with a whole bunch of folders styles. I put them on a website. There weren’t that many. I started promoting. Sramana Mitra: How did

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping to over $5M: Vladimir Gendelman, CEO of Company Folders (Part 1)

Ukrainian entrepreneur Vladimir Gendelman started as a solo entrepreneur in Detroit and has bootstrapped a $5M+ niche e-commerce company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

July 27 – 613th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Spotlighting Women Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 613th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 8:30 p.m. India IST/ 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST. During this special roundtable, women entrepreneurs will have first priority to Pitch. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business

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612th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development

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

Roundtable Recap: July 20 – Startup Ecosystem Development Strategy for Underdeveloped India

During this week’s roundtable, we did a strategy session on how to develop startup ecosystems and pipelines of entrepreneurs outside of the six major metros based on my blog series, Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: A Strategy Discussion. Very interesting discussion. BRIKS Technology For our entrepreneur pitch, we had Kiran Das from Cochin, India, pitch BRIKS

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