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Best of Bootstrapping: FinTech Founder Bootstrapped with Services

Posted on Monday, Mar 24th

George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services series. Here is our conversation from 2021. 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? George Anderson: I

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Best of Bootstrapping: FinTech Founder Bootstrapped Using Services

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 30th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services track. 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

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Best of Bootstrapping: Ninth Wave Founder Bootstrapped Using Services

Posted on Monday, Feb 28th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services track. 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

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Bootstrapping Using Services: George Anderson, CEO of Ninth Wave (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 6th

Sramana Mitra: Who did you raise money from? George Anderson: It was from a company called Soros private equity.  Sramana Mitra: How much revenue was the software business generating when you brought this firm in? George Anderson: I don’t want to get it wrong, so I’d rather not say that one. 

Bootstrapping Using Services: George Anderson, CEO of Ninth Wave (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Feb 5th

Sramana Mitra: When did that episode happen? Was it when you did this repackaging? George Anderson: Yes, when I did the repackaging. It was in 2001.  Sramana Mitra: From 2001 to 2008, you ran as a bootstrapped company. How far did you get between your services, training, and software?

Bootstrapping Using Services: George Anderson, CEO of Ninth Wave (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4th

George Anderson: Here is a lesson I learned. It’s very relevant to bootstrapping using services. I said, “How do we take this business to the next level?” The answer was to go out and raise some capital. I hired Jeffries and we put together an information memorandum and a package, and we went out and

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Bootstrapping Using Services: George Anderson, CEO of Ninth Wave (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 3rd

Sramana Mitra: How long did you do the high-end data teaching business? George Anderson: Up until 9/11. My learning center was in Broad Street in Lower Manhattan. They called it the Silicon Valley. I was in the information technology center during 9/11. 9/11 put it out of business.  Sramana Mitra: Did your technology consulting business

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Bootstrapping Using Services: George Anderson, CEO of Ninth Wave (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 2nd

Sramana Mitra: Enterprise Engineering was an enterprise technology consulting firm? George Anderson: It was and still is.  Sramana Mitra: That is the company that we are talking about today?