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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do first to get this thing off the ground? Were there other car parts site at all, or was this the first one that came online? Dara Greaney: The way the auto parts industry grew was everyone started selling their own niche products. If you were in the wheels business, you’d
Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: We have to capture the story of how you put one foot before the other. You said you started the company right out of school. How did you get it off the ground? What was the premise of the company? What were you going to do and how did you get started? Pierre
Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dara bootstrapped BuyAutoParts to $54 million in profitable revenue and sold the company to private equity. Yet another story of success in the niche e-commerce domain. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,
Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 5)
David Braun: The next challenge was when the customer acquisition cost was starting to double every year. Since we were now working with the platforms, there were a few challenges to initiate the major change in the release. In a year, we were producing 3,000 to 4,000 products. We had to make a decision on whether
Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Pierre and Fred Guelen have bootstrapped a very significant company from The Netherlands using the bootstrapping using services principle. Read on and learn how. Sramana Mitra: We’re going to start at the very beginning of your personal journeys. One of you please start by telling us
Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 4)
David Braun: Then the new threat to the business came into the scene. A lot of web designers started to fear that TemplateMonster will kill the custom web design market. They were saying, “You don’t have to use the template because it’s a bad practice. You’d better order the custom design service.” This was how
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I wanted to ask you about location and where you’re building your team. Where is the bulk of the organisation? Dave Copps: We’re in Dallas, Texas. Sramana Mitra: Everything is in Dallas, Texas? Dave Copps: We do have satellite offices. We have people in San Francisco, DC, New York, and London. Sramana Mitra:
Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How did these people find you? David Braun: Basically, because of the forums. I was very active. Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome. David Braun: But you know what, out of this $70,000, $60,000 were fraud and our account was frozen because it was all from stolen credit card numbers. We had to shut down the processing.