687th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $5 Million First

Founder CEO Josh Millet had bootstrapped Criteria to almost $5 million in revenue before raising funding. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Josh Millet: I was born in Toronto, Canada. I have dual citizenship of

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Bootstrapping From a Small Town in Denmark to $12 Million: Sebastian Petersen, CEO of TrendHim (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What country did you first go into outside Denmark? Sebastian Petersen: Norway and Sweden. Then we started going south into Germany and France. Sramana Mitra: Was there something different that Norway and Sweden wanted? Sebastian Petersen: Only simple things. Once we started moving out of Scandinavia to Germany and France and especially Eastern

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Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Martin Rosinski, Chief Technical Officer Palringo (Part 1)

Have you heard of in-chat gaming? Read on… Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction about yourself as well as Palringo. Martin Rosinski: To give Palringo’s quick story, I founded Palringo close to 10 years ago. In August, Palringo will be celebrating its 10th birthday. It started out back when mobile apps and the idea

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Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 7)

Sramana: In terms of completing the story, bringing us up to 2014, there are few interesting questions I would like to ask. What are some of the other major strategic moves that you made? Brian Requarth: Let me summarize one thing, say financing. I organized the financing in several buckets. After pooling from friends and family, in the first

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Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 6)

Sramana: By the time he invested in your business, had he already sold the business in England? Brian Requarth: Yes, he already had an exit in 2007, three weeks before the financial crisis. He was 27 years old. He sold it for a lot of money and when he came down to Colombia, I told him

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Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 5)

Sramana: Tell me more about financing, what was the financing strategy that you followed in the company? Brian Requarth: We decided to bootstrap for a long time. Sramana: How long did you bootstrap? Brian Requarth: We started in 2007. We didn’t have cash flow to support the expansion to Brazil in 2009. In 2010, my family invested a little

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Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 4)

Sramana: How long did you do a critical mass of a particular listing such that the marketplace on the other side would become interesting? Brian Requarth: During that time, we didn’t have enough listings from customers that we were offering free trials to. So we actually built a robot to go out and get the listings

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