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

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Best of Bootstrapping: Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapped with Paycheck to $15M+

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  SoPost Founder and CEO Jonny Grubin started as a solo entrepreneur, bootstrapped with a paycheck, and had built a $15M+ revenue global business with a small amount of funding when we spoke last year. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your

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Best of Bootstrapping: Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps with a Paycheck to over $15M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin started as a solo entrepreneur, bootstrapped with a paycheck, and has built a $15M+ revenue global business with a small amount of funding. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise in the second round? Jonny Grubin: Probably about £300,000. In total, we raised about £900,000. Sramana Mitra: Excellent. I love capital-efficient businesses.

Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: 2014 and 2015, more of the same? Jonny Grubin: Our focus and what I had built this business around was gifting samples to a friend. We were doing well with that. There was nobody else in the space. Brands loved it. We were on a pretty exciting trajectory. We had a lot of

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How much did Avon pay you? Jonny Grubin: They paid me £1,000 which seemed like a huge amount of money at that time. It was about validating it all. We were still very much bootstrapped. I didn’t want to be greedy. I need to charge them something. A thousand pounds seemed like a

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How much money did your friend put in? Jonny Grubin: He put in £45,000, which for me felt like a huge amount of money. Sramana Mitra: What exactly where you able to prove in that MVP? I’m so used to constantly working with people’s pitches. As you were speaking, one thing that struck

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue: SoPost CEO Jonny Grubin (Part 3)

Jonny Grubin: I wrote to a couple of friends and we launched an MVP. People couldn’t do anything with SoPost, but it allowed me to test the concept. In December 2012, we launched a website where you could sign up with your email address. You could add some delivery addresses and create a schedule, but

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