Best of Bootstrapping: An AI Startup Bootstrapped Using Services

Co-founder Nitesh Chawla bootstrapped Aunalytics while keeping his academic job at Notre Dame. This is our conversation from 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Nitesh Chawla: I’m from New Delhi although I was born in Calcutta.

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Deal Radar 2008: InsideView’s Clever Maneuvering

InsideView — headquartered in San Bruno, California, USA and operations in Cincinnati, Ohio and Hyderabad, India—was founded in 2005 by Umberto Milletti and Richard Horn. The company has been featured here before and you can read my interview with Umberto here.

Welcome to Bait And Switch! (Yes, I’m Talking to You)

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author In many respects nothing changes, like ever. For instance, I’ve been watching service businesses pull some serious crap for years. No matter what happens the practice of Bait & Switch (BAS) still persists.After downturns, price of coffee skyrocketing, the freaking mortgage collapse, terrorism, wars, famine, pestilence (okay not that) and

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