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AI and Tech Startup Course Coupons for February
Founders who know how to turn AI into real products, customers, and revenue are pulling ahead. If you want to move faster and avoid costly mistakes with your startup across Generative AI, Machine Learning, FinTech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, or automation, the smartest move is learning from proven founder playbooks, not trial and error. To help you
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Cybersecurity Venture with a Paycheck
Christian Geyer convinced the board of his employer to let him incubate a cybersecurity startup idea as a division of the company with an express intent of spinning it off. Now, ACTFORE has been spun out, doing almost $20M in bootstrapped annual revenue, and may soon find a lucrative exit. This is a phenomenal story
Best of Bootstrapping: Founder Bootstrapped to $10M Using Services
Founder Sameer Maggon discussed bootstrapping SearchStax to $10 million using services with me in 2021. Excellently navigated journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background? Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer
Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped First, Scaled to $16M
This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati told us all about their journey in 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does
