Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So then in this story, at what point did you raise the venture capital? Is this 2010? Lance Newhauser: Yes, 2010. Sramana Mitra: What did you do before going out to raise money? Did you do some amount of customer development, validation work? Whom were you selling to? What was the positioning?

Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: From your personal career journey point of view, I have gone through a similar journey. After I did three startups as Founder CEO, I started consulting because I just wanted to do something else and learn a different skill. I didn’t want to be a CEO, I wanted to learn something else. I

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The track that we have is bootstrapping using services, which your story also speaks to. Services companies bring in revenues very early and that helps a lot. So bootstrapping using services to exit is a wonderful track actually.

Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I assume that since it was a services company, you were able to bootstrap it, right? Lance Newhauser: Yes, it was a service company that we initially bootstrapped. We did bring on one investor who put a few thousand dollars into the company so that we could go get some office space and

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 1)

Lance bootstrapped his first company to an exit. He venture funded his second company and exited after 10 years. He is about to launch his third. Read on, great story.

Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Can you give me an example of a Lego block that AI has enhanced? What was the Lego block and what did AI do to enhance that Lego block?

Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Take me to the inflection point where you hit upon the healthcare focus. What was the impetus for that? Ayush Jain: So that was actually around the time of COVID. Moving forward, we focused on making internal changes—hiring our own sales team, setting up foundations, and so on—because we were always striving for

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Pune: Mindbowser CEO Ayush Jain (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So, six to seven years of Upwork. What revenue level were you able to reach? How many people did you have in the company?