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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Three out of the fifteen customers you started the process with converted into customers. What kind of average deal size did they convert at? James Cramer: The initial deal size was maybe $50,000 to $75,000 in ARR. Sramana Mitra: What time frame are we talking about?
Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me how you went about it. You used the lesson that you learned on bootstrapping using services. Tell me more about how you applied that principle to this business. James Cramer: The first thing that we did was, we got into a room with a whiteboard. It was just the two of
Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How did the acquisition happen? James Cramer: We would occasionally get solicitations from bankers. We would always entertain it to get a sense of which company was worth it and what was going on in terms of acquisitions. One day, I got an email from a banker in New York that said, “I
Building a Fintech Company from Luxembourg: STOKR CEO Tobias Seidl (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The game hasn’t been released yet? Tobias Seidl: No. What we are offering on our platform is for early-stage companies to share future profits. For revenue-making companies, they share a part of their revenues. We always have a balance of these two components. Sramana Mitra: What is the profile of the investors who
Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Help me out with one piece of this story. In an entrepreneur journey, the first time you’re doing it without personal money is a different ball game than when you have made money and are doing it a second time. By the time you come to Zimit, you had money. It’s a different
Building a Fintech Company from Luxembourg: STOKR CEO Tobias Seidl (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Much is happening by way of innovation in fund raising exchanges in the field of FinTech. Here is a story from Europe. 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
Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)
Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?
Building a Unicorn and Establishing the Customer Success Category: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight (Part 5)
Nick Mehta: The business went from an unattractive investment from a financial investor’s point of view to a highly attractive one. We are one of those companies that has a lot of long-term potential because we are the main player in the space. I never like to say that we own the category, but so
