Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 1)

Anji has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category.

Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Now, you raised your seed round on an IP-led hypothesis or plan.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Lean and Niche E-commerce Venture

This conversation with Modded Euros Co-founder Sean Dawes from 2019 is a comprehensive discussion on how to bootstrap a niche e-commerce venture with a lean team and effective use of inventory financing. You can listen to the podcast interview here and watch the interview here: Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your

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Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at the P&Ls of these Infosys, WiPro, Persistence and various companies that have achieved scale in the services universe, how do the components of the P&L and the margins of these companies compare with the kind of company that you are looking to build?

Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Right, you’ll learn as you go along. But there will be these three buckets, I think, even when you are a $100M or a $1B company. This is going to be the structure of your company. So the question then is, what is the distribution?

Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Feroze, there are a few things that come to mind as I’m listening to you. First and foremost, you talked about delivery constraints and supply constraints in terms of the expertise that give you this moat. You haven’t talked about domain knowledge.

Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, I’ve a number of questions. First and foremost, you said you acquired or acqui-hired the software from somebody that you started with. What is the financing of this company? Did you raise money? Did you self-finance? How did you acquire?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $45 Million from Chicago

RKON Technologies CEO Jeff Mullarkey had built a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business that I thought he could take to $500 million or a billion dollars in revenue when we spoke in 2015. Read on to learn why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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