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Building a Mission-Driven Company from Sweden: Anders Ankarlid, CEO of A Good Company (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th

Anders is passionate about climate change. His fifth venture is one that explores his passion for sustainability. 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?

Bridging Complex Technology To Market: Lior Gal, CEO of Excelero (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 9th

This is a textbook case study of how to bring complex technology to market. 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? Lior Gal: I’m an Israeli out of Tel Aviv and soon to be 47 years

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Building Two Capital-Efficient AI Companies: Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO of Aible and BeyondCore (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 2nd

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  As AI companies start to find adoption, we are now starting to see real successes emerge. Arijit Sengupta has built one company and sold it to Salesforce.com. He is doing a second one that is also moving right along. Many insights to draw from this conversation!

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Meaningfully Impacting the Economy in The Philippines: John Jonas, CEO of OnlineJobs.ph (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 25th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  John has built an online job portal specifically focused on the Philippines. Very interesting story of how one entrepreneur has held steady his priorities and built a terrific lifestyle business! Kudos! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Glamping Hub CEO Ruben Martinez (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 19th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Travel has been a popular category for entrepreneurs to build capital-efficient businesses in. Read the story of Glamping Hub. 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? Ruben

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Sep 16th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Luke has executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy with Faction. 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? Luke Norris: I was born in

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Jeff Wilkins, CEO of Motili (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 4th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jeff has turned $1M of personal investment (with his Co-Founder) to $80 million in revenue. Pretty capital-efficient, this entrepreneur’s journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with where your story begins. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jeff Wilkins:

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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 12th

Entrepreneurs love to discuss success. Few are willing to discuss what they tried and failed at. Adam does a terrific job of sharing his journey through various failed experiments to a model that is now gaining traction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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