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Best of Bootstrapping: Solopreneur Bootstrapped to Over $5M
Ukrainian entrepreneur Vladimir Gendelman started as a solo entrepreneur in Detroit and, when we spoke in 2023, he had bootstrapped a $5M+ niche e-commerce company called Company Folders. 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? Vladimir Gendelman:
Best of Bootstrapping: Solopreneur Bootstrapped with Paycheck to $15M+
SoPost Founder and CEO Jonathan Grubin started as a solo entrepreneur, bootstrapped with a paycheck, and had built an over $15 Million revenue global business with a small amount of funding when we spoke in 2021. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: MyCorporation.com, Calabasas, California
MyCorporation provides a platform for a “business in a box” that enables new businesses to get their businesses started and incorporated quickly. It also files the necessary paperwork with government agencies and has educational resources for entrepreneurs.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dick Reeves, Executive Director, Huntsville Angel Network (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When you invest in e-commerce companies, do they have to be located in your geographical area? Dick: That’s interesting. The one that exited here was a virtual company. One of the founders was here, one was in Boulder, Colorado, and one was up in New York
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dick Reeves, Executive Director, Huntsville Angel Network (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You were telling me about two companies in your portfolio that failed, and you lost about $1 million combined on both of them. What were the reasons for their failure? Dick: Both failed for the same reason. They failed for factors that were outside of their
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dick Reeves, Executive Director, Huntsville Angel Network (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do for companies that you decide not to invest in? Dick: We make contacts for them. That’s probably the biggest thing we can do for them – help them understand what they need to do to make them more eligible [for funding] or
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: SitStay ,Lincoln,Nebraska
SitStay, Inc. started as an online mom-and-pop dog supply store that has become one of the largest dog supply retailers on the Internet, defying conventional wisdom about the viability of selling pet products online. Readers may recall the failure of Petopia and the collapse of Amazon-backed Pets.com, which raised $82.5 million in an IPO in
Deal Radar 2010: BigCommerce
Not only are Americans buying more online, but they’re also buying more types of products online, including items such as health products, cosmetics, and beauty products that were once the sole domain of physical stores. Of course, products such as books and small electronics that have long been bought over the Internet remain popular. All
