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Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When you finished university, what point were you at? Ben Spring: I can’t remember now. It must have been 10,000 users. Sramana Mitra: All free still? Ben Spring: We introduced a pay-as-you-go model. You can pay per course. After talking to users, we found that it wasn’t the best model for us, so
Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 1)
Ben and his co-founder are two techies who started by bootstrapping with a paycheck. With zero marketing budget, they have scaled TryHackMe to a million users and significant revenue. 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?
Bootstrapping Using Services and Piggybacking from Australia: StoreConnect CEO Mikel Lindsaar (Part 1)
Mikel has built a services company in Australia and spawned six SaaS products out of it. One of them, StoreConnect, is a terrific Bootstrapping by Piggybacking story on top of Salesforce.com. He has exited four of the apps and expects to grow StoreConnect to $100M+ in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning
7 Udemy Courses on How To Build an EdTech Startup
Online learning has exploded in popularity over the last decade. In Covid, the field has found a tremendous force multiplier. Many founders are now turning to online education for startup ideas. Here’s why: it can be extremely profitable because online courses do not require physical classrooms, startup costs are more affordable and startup time frames
Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You have a political science and law background. Then you went to McKinsey to do some consulting work. This brings us to 2006 now? David Moricca: 2005. Sramana Mitra: What happens then? David Moricca: I was itching to move from consulting into more of an operational role. Because of my previous background and
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 5)
Stuart Udell: I have the pleasure to be one of only two members of the EdTech community who are part of the American Association of School Administrators’ new commission for student-centered and equity-focused education. The goal of that organization is to create a blueprint for the future of American education. While there was a lot
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: We’re hearing a lot about going into accounts through the teacher network. It seems to be working really well. You’re reinforcing the point by getting products in the hands of teachers through some sort of a freemium model and getting people to start looking at the product. There’s a virality to this. It
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: When the teacher is assigning this reading through your product, is the student doing that reading at home? Stuart Udell: Before COVID, about 46% of our reading was done after school hours. Since COVID, that number jumped to the high 80s and even touched 90%. The nice thing is, there are lots of
