Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace: Mort Fertel, CEO of SudShare (Part 1)

This is an insightful story of a family that has built an interesting two-sided marketplace business for outsourcing laundry services. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? In what kind of background?

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 1)

Salil and Kiran Pande have built a capital-efficient AI company from India addressing the global career services market. It’s a wonderful conversation that works in both AI thought leadership and also their entrepreneurial journey. Enjoy! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself, your co-founder, and VMock.

Best of Bootstrapping: Firmex Scaled with Angel Money in Canada

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2015, Joel Lessem was scaling a profitable company in Toronto called Firmex, and had only spent $4 million in angel money to get to almost $10 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 1)

Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discusses his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation! Sramana Mitra: Welcome Lloyed. I’m looking forward to know you and understanding what you’re doing.  Lloyed Lobo: Thanks for having me.

Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 1)

This is a text book case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does your journey begin? 

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Stephanie was a Sophomore in college when she started her venture. Wonderful story of a student entrepreneur growing into a multi-million dollar ultra-light e-commerce business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Excellently navigated journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background? Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer Science from Pune. Then I

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12 Udemy Courses with Entrepreneurship Case Studies

Entrepreneurship is not a career. It is a way of life. For me, this journey began as a graduate student at MIT in 1994. The world watched Netscape go public that spring, and the Internet swept over us like a virus. As I wrote my Masters thesis, I also wrote my first business plan. We

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