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How an IT Services Startup Wants to Disrupt Itself in the AI Era: Sanjay Jupudi, CEO of Qentelli (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. AI will disrupt outsourcing services companies in a very big way. We talk to Sanjay on how he plans to prepare. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your personal journey. Tell me where you’re from, where were you born, raised, and in
Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to 5 Million Plus: Nick Shaw, CEO of Renaissance Periodization (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Nick has built a very interesting e-learning company and addressed scalability with nifty strategic choices. Read on. You’ll learn a lot. 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
Bootstrapping with Paycheck to $15 Million from Tennessee: Gene Caballero, CEO of GreenPal (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Did you start this as a bootstrapped company? Gene Caballero: Yes. We aggregated about $100,000 between the co-founders. We blew that by paying a custom shop to build us a website and a couple of apps. After about a year and a half of not getting what we want, they turned over a
Bootstrapping with Paycheck to $15 Million from Tennessee: Gene Caballero, CEO of GreenPal (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This is a fantastic story of a founder duo bootstrapping with a paycheck, now growing from $5M to $15M in one year, with a virtual team of freelancers. Your classic 21st century internet business. No outside financing whatsoever! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning
Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There’s some reason why you were drawn to insurance? Why insurance? Karn Saroya: When we were running Stylekick, we worked with some insurance brokers. One day, I walked into one of their offices. This was in Toronto in the financial district. They had multiple floors wedged between investment banks, consulting firms, and private
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How did you get it off the ground? You said you raised money right away? Neil Vaswani: Yes. My co-founder and I wrote up a two-page executive summary. We started spamming VCs. We got some calls back. Sramana Mitra: What year was this happening? Neil Vaswani: This is 2005. Not exactly the best
Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 2)
Karn Saroya: Ultimately, we were acqui-hired at Shopify. We got to build all sorts of interesting things. We worked on the Facebook Messenger chat bot for commerce. We got to work with Toby a little bit. Having been there for a couple of months, we still had the itch. We decided that we wanted to
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Neil has turned a $3M investment into a ~$10M annual revenue company by addressing a cumbersome piece of workflow in benefits management. Read on to learn how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,