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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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