Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to YC and a $10M Series A

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  UpKeep Founder CEO Ryan Chan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into Y Combinator. From there, he raised a $10 million Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution as of this podcast

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Y Combinator and $10M Series A

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  UpKeep Maintenance Management CEO Ryan Chan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into Y Combinator. From there, he raised a $10 million Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution as of this podcast

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to Y Combinator and $10 Million Series A

UpKeep Maintenance Management CEO Ryan Chan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into Y Combinator. From there, he raised a $10 million Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution thus far. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the very beginning of your journey.

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454th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ryan Chan, UpKeep Maintenance Management

Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep, bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, went through Y Combinator, followed by raising $13 Million.

454th Roundtable Recording on August 29, 2019: With Ryan Chan, UpKeep Maintenance Management

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Roundtable Recap: August 29 – Startups Spanning Indonesia, Nigeria, Guatemala and a YCombinator Case Study

During this week’s roundtable, we had Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. Ryan has bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, gone through YCombinator, followed by raising $13 Million. Great case study. Travling As for the pitches, up first we had Daniel Agung Pratana from Indonesia pitch Travling, a local travel app.

Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of numbers did you do in 2016, 2017, and 2018? What was the ramp in terms of free users and paying users? What was happening? Ryan Chan: We’ve been growing very fast. We’ve hit a true nerve in this market and the completely underserved industry. Over 2,500 paying companies use UpKeep.

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have $10 million in the bank. You started hiring sales people and started putting a process together. Now, let me reask the question. What was the repeatable sales process?Was it that you started putting in a process to take all the leads? Are the free users categorized by companies, company size, and

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