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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped First, Raised Funds Later
JobNimbus Co-founder and CEO Ben Hodson is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. He shared how he has navigated his journey with me in 2021. 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 background
Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Funds Later
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Ben Hodson, Co-founder and CEO of JobNimbus, is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. Read on to see how he has navigated his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping JobNimbus First, Raising Money Later
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Ben Hodson, Co-founder and CEO of JobNimbus, is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. Read on to see how he has navigated his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 7)
Ben Hodson: What we realized is that customers coming to us were for customization and choice. Because we’d built the software to be so customizable with all these integrations, we now had a full product solution that we could start scaling. We saw tremendous growth in 2018. We did over 100% in our growth. In
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 6)
Ben Hodson: By the end of 2013, we were in a position where these guys would say, “Hey, we would pay for this. This is better than a lot of stuff out in the market.” We decided to take the money that we earned on our latest project RepeatSys. We had about $50,000 each. We
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What period of time did you do that mode of existence of doing consulting to pay down your debt? Ben Hodson: That was from about 2008 to 2012. During that time, I started a bunch of smaller companies that tried different things, but I made most of my money off of consulting. None
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the 2004 timeframe when you were leaving this company. When you left, what did you do? Ben Hodson: I had the entrepreneur bug. I was saying, “Oh my gosh, I really want to do another company, but I need to find a problem that I believe in and care
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Did you get the funding first before building the product or vice versa? Ben Hodson: We built the product for the funding. It would not have gotten the funding if it weren’t for the product and the first customer. We had been raising money for a year and a half. I have probably
