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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Tuft & Needle to Over $100M

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 28th

Online mattress is one of the hottest e-commerce categories, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle Co-founder JT Marino shared his story with me in 2017. If you’re inspired by Tuft & Needle’s bootstrapped success, explore how a virtual accelerator for solo founders or an equity-free startup

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Cybersecurity Venture with a Paycheck

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 27th

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

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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped PropTech Ventures

Posted on Thursday, Aug 14th

LuxuryProperty Founder Jason Hayes has worked at the cusp of real estate and digital marketing for 35 years and built three successful ventures. All of them are bootstrapped, organically grown, and capital efficient businesses. Here is our discussion from 2023. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping an Enterprise Software Business for 30 Years

Posted on Friday, May 9th

Dean Guida, CEO and Founder at Infragistics, has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values and shared his story with me in 2021. Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born

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