Canadian Brothers Bootstrapping to $40M Exit: Chris Sinkinson, Co-Founder AppArmor (Part 1)

I always love Bootstrapping to Exit stories. Chris and his brother bootstrapped a wonderful startup and sold it for $40M. Read on for the nuances. Sramana Mitra: All right, Chris, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of backgrounds?

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Can you discuss pricing for this K-12 data science training program? What kind of schools? Is this part of the curriculum now? Is data science being taught at a curriculum level? What’s the state of the union? Josh Jones: I’d be happy to go much, much deeper into this area because it’s a

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Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you engineer your go-to-market organization to sell large deals to enterprises? Josh Jones: We sell all the way down to a company hiring a single person. In fact, in our base level offering, you can get free tests. You start paying when you need larger volume and a single sign-on. A

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Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So who were these corporate customers? The corporate customers were not for this hiring interviewing tool. Then, you were selling something else besides this product, right? Josh Jones: Yes, we had a number of customers that we talked to that expressed interest. The first interesting customer was one of the largest consulting firms

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Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were you using third party software for these projects? What was the lay of the land in terms of tools and technologies for doing this work at that time?

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Okay, so we’re doing an Entrepreneur Journey story. I need a journey. So give me timelines. When did you do what and what led to what and so on. So, you were trying to do this business and your Alabama college education was from what year to what year? Seven years, you said.

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Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 1)

Josh is building a Data Science training company from Alabama. It’s a very interesting model, going deep into high school level skill development in what the market needs today. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Josh. It’s great to have you. Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised?

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Bootstrapping a Generative AI Venture Using Services: Abhinav Girdhar, Founder CEO of Appy Pie (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You have about a $12-$15 million company right now, is that right? Abhinav Girdhar: I would say north of that, but i don’t have the real numbers on top of my head. Sramana Mitra: And it’s a bootstrapped company?