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568th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Abinash Saikia, EnCloudEn (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Apr 25th

Abinash Saikia, Co-founder of EnCloudEn and former 1Mby1M Premium member, has successfully bootstrapped his venture to an exit and discusses the process in great depth. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the premise of EnCloudEn. Abinash Saikia: I have had a pretty good education from IIT Chennai

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Building a Capital-Efficient Niche SaaS Startup from The Netherlands: Hatch CEO Joris Kroese (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd

Often niche ideas are great to build capital-efficient, profitable startups on. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Joris Kroese: I was born in a small village close to Amsterdam. I was born in 1977. I

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From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur with Exit: ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Apr 18th

Mahendra transitioned from a developer to a successful entrepreneur with his first company, exited it, and then started ACCELQ. ACCELQ already has 200 customers and is a profitable, bootstrapped company growing fast. A wonderful and inspiring story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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From Hard Core Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Francis Dinha, CEO of OpenVPN (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 14th

Francis has bootstrapped OpenVPN to $3M ARR with JUST $1M in financing. Wonderful story! 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? Francis Dinha: I was born in northern Iraq in a place called Amadiya. I lived there

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From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Hevo Data CEO Manish Jethani (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 12th

Manish discusses his various experiences with customer validation in great depth, as well as his journey from being a hard-core developer geek to a successful entrepreneur CEO who has raised multiple rounds of venture capital from top firms including Sequoia Capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you

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From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Apr 8th

Inspiring story of a passionate technical founder who has built one of the iconic fast growth Unicorns in the tech industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

From MIT PhD Student to Machine Learning Entrepreneur: Verta.ai CEO Manasi Vartak (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Apr 4th

Manasi made the journey from a technologist to a founder CEO, raised over $10M in funding, and has built over $5M in revenue with her first startup.Amazing execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

From Developer to 2-Time Successful AI Entrepreneur with Exits: Behamics CEO Valon Xhafa (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Apr 1st

Valon is a software developer who made a successful transition to an entrepreneur and had a quick exit with his first venture. His second venture is already at $5M+ in revenues with just a pre-seed round of financing. This venture, Behemics, has already received two acquisition offers. Fabulous story!