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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Company: Modded Euros CEO Sean Dawes (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I try to trace the journey chronologically. Tell me what you did after coming out? Sean Dawes: Towards my senior year, panic set in about what I was going to do. I realized that I was going to be making $12 an hour and have student loan debt. I ended up working in
Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Company: Modded Euros CEO Sean Dawes (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This conversation is a comprehensive discussion on how to bootstrap a niche e-commerce venture with a lean team and effective use of inventory financing. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in
Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: To open America, you don’t want US investors? Guiller Gaspart: The main problem that I found last month when we were talking with some investors from the States is that they want to invest in the companies that they already are working in the States. Once we open the States, we’ll talk again
Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what happens after you’ve covered all of Spain. Is there any other strategic move that you made that is worth discussing? Guillermo Gaspart: Yes. At the beginning, we were really focused on the product and on the technology. We were investing a lot of money just to improve this technology
Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to reach $1 million in revenue? Guillermo Gaspart: It was the second year or third year that allowed us to reach this amount. Sramana Mitra: Clearly, your first point of call is Barcelona. You had contact and friends there. So that was an easy start. How many
Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what you needed to build. You needed to build some software that would allow hotels to manage this process as well as users to make bookings in this mode because none of the OTAs would allow users to even do this at the moment. Guillermo Gaspart: Exactly. We
Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. European startups are fast gaining maturity. ByHours is a venture-funded company growing steadily and expanding globally. Read on for a 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
Building a New Insurance Company From Scratch: Clearcover CEO Kyle Nakatsuji (Part 7)
Kyle Nakatsuji: The fortunate thing for us is that car insurance is a $230 billion per year market. The fact that one person who didn’t know us wanted to buy was an indication that lots of people we didn’t know would do the same. So we ended up immediately growing pretty quickly, faster than we
