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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping from AZ to $10M

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 25th

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  After putting the spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona, I spoke with Pagely CEO Joshua Strebel. In 2019, he shared another terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped from Arizona to $10M

Posted on Friday, Apr 29th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  After putting the spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona, I spoke with Pagely CEO Joshua Strebel. He shares another terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 3rd

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Talk to me a bit about doing this in Tucson, Arizona. What are the dynamics? What is the community like and to what extent are you leveraging that community’s pros and cons? Joshua Strebel: In the early days, we were based in Phoenix first. We moved to Tucson about four years ago.

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 2nd

Joshua Strebel: We really enjoy those complex, harder, and out-of-the-normal WordPress workflow cases. There’s also this site called bringatrailer.com. These are a couple of entrepreneurs that probably invite you for one of these interviews. They started with a little online auto auction site and now they’ve gone on to become one of the premier private

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Mar 1st

Sramana Mitra: What was the point where you hit the $1 million annual revenue run rate mark? Joshua Strebel: I think that was about 2011 to 2012. So, it took about two and a half to three years to get to a million a year. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. With a bootstrapped company, that’s

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th

Sramana Mitra: What were some of the mistakes? Joshua Strebel: Not really knowing how to market. For designers and developers, I think it’s so easy to build a product. It’s really hard to get that product into the hands of your customers. If you recall in that time period, when Twitter and Facebook were new,

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 27th

We recently did a Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona. Here is one more terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. 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? Joshua Strebel: I was born in a little town in

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