categories
HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
synechron
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $300 Million
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Synechron CEO Faisal Husain is one of those rare entrepreneurs who managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale. We discussed his journey in 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped with No Outside Financing to $300M
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron, is one of those rare entrepreneurs who managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale when we spoke in 2015. We discuss his journey here. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $300M!
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron, is one of those rare entrepreneurs who managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale. We discussed his journey in 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where
Best of Bootstrapping: Synechron CEO Bootstrapped to $300M
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron, is one of those rare entrepreneurs who managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale. We discuss his journey here. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story.
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about your thinking around that. It sounds like there’s a philosophy around being self-financed. You must be getting lots of calls from private equity all the time. Faisal Husain: Yes, we’ve been getting calls for several years. I have met all of them and am on fairly good terms with them. In
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Where is your team? Is it all in New York? Faisal Husain: We started out of New Jersey. We had a development center in India from day one, because almost all of our clients were interested in leveraging the global delivery model to manage the cost in these projects. To your question about
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you did a bunch of e-commerce systems at a couple of hundred thousand dollars a pop in the early days of the company. What’s the next major milestone? How long did it take you to get to a $100 million in revenue, for instance? Faisal Husain: We started in mid-2001.
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the concept around which you founded Synechron? Faisal Husain: The concept was based on being a customer of this industry. I saw a gap in the service that I was getting from the company out in the market. The gap was that they didn’t have sufficient business skills. The whole outsourcing model
