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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Freemium Business Using a Paycheck

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 15th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. When we spoke in 2015, he was using a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Freemium Business with a Paycheck

Posted on Friday, Dec 9th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. When we spoke in 2015, he was using a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Best of Bootstrapping: JotForm Founder Bootstrapped with a Paycheck

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 26th

If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course.  Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. He used a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born,

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of JotForm (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 8th

Sramana Mitra: Were you seeing the same kind of conversion levels from free to premium? Aytekin Tank: I can’t actually recall the numbers right now. Sramana Mitra: This is a very big question. Whenever people are doing freemium products, it’s a question that we ask. It’s something that people are trying to understand. What are

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of JotForm (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 7th

Sramana Mitra: Did the market accept that you had a better product? Aytekin Tank: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Who were the competitors that you faced at that point? Aytekin Tank: JotForm came out in February 2006. Before that, there were many forms products. All these products had old interfaces. Most of them are not very popular

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of JotForm (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 6th

Sramana Mitra: What was the revenue level when you quit your job and went full-time with the business? Aytekin Tank: It was a little higher than my salary, but it wasn’t too high. Sramana Mitra: I can’t gauge from that. What are we talking? Are we talking $10,000 a month? Aytekin Tank: It was less

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Oct 5th

If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course.  Aytekin is a Turkish entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. He has used a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what

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