Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $30 Million from Florida

SproutLoud CEO Jared Shusterman shared his wonderful bootstrapping story with me in 2017. 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 of background? Jared Shusterman: I was born in Miami, Florida. I’m one of the few South Florida natives. I

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Balihoo ,Boise, Idaho

Balihoo provides local marketing automation technology and creative, media buying, and media planning services to the distributed marketing partners (i.e., franchisees or resellers) of national brands. Balihoo’s customers have reduced local production costs by up to 90%, improved local ROI by more than 30%, and improved national visibility into local marketing efforts and their results.