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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a $10M E-commerce Business

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 27th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  E-commerce companies are relatively easy to bootstrap. In 2015, Steve Acree shared his journey bootstrapping Seismic Audio to almost $10 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Best of Bootstrapping: Seismic Audio CEO Bootstrapped a $10 Million E-Commerce Business

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 26th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  E-commerce companies are relatively easy to bootstrap. In 2015, Steve Acree shared his journey bootstrapping Seismic Audio to almost $10 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Bootstrapping a $10 Million E-Commerce Business: Seismic Audio CEO Steve Acree (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Sep 18th

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a bit about where your revenues are today. We are getting to the end of 2015. What number are you going to close at this year? Steve Acree: In 2012, Amazon approached us. They wanted to purchase directly from us. That has beefed up the revenue this year. Last year,

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Bootstrapping a $10 Million E-Commerce Business: Seismic Audio CEO Steve Acree (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 17th

Sramana Mitra: How much was your total revenue line in 2009 when you had six employees? Steve Acree: In the neighborhood of $2.5 million to $3 million. Sramana Mitra: What’s the next major inflection point in the business after 2009? Steve Acree: It started to get cumbersome. It was three dashboards. You had to plug

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Bootstrapping a $10 Million E-Commerce Business: Seismic Audio CEO Steve Acree (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 16th

Sramana Mitra: In 2007 when you introduced this new channel, how much did Amazon do? Steve Acree: Amazon, at the get-go, didn’t do a whole lot. In the first month, it sold about 10 items. By the six-month mark, it was doing about $10,000 a month in sales. After about 12 months, it was doing about

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Bootstrapping a $10 Million E-Commerce Business: Seismic Audio CEO Steve Acree (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 15th

Sramana Mitra: What really clicked in gear in 2003? If you look 12 years back when you decided that this was where you’re going to spend your time, what clicked in gear? Steve Acree: Just the idea that everybody is moving to the Internet. They’re interested in eBay and Amazon. I had really good success

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Bootstrapping a $10 Million E-Commerce Business: Seismic Audio CEO Steve Acree (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Sep 14th

E-commerce companies are relatively easy to bootstrap. Steve tells the story of his journey bootstrapping Seismic Audio to almost $10 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Steve Acree: I was born

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