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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $27 Million
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This is a wonderful story from 2016 of a serial bootstrapper, then Tanga CEO, Jeremy Young. He built a wonderful e-commerce business similar to Groupon, but with no outside money. Sramana Mitra: Let’s got back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you
Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Bootstrapper Bootstrapped to $27M
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This is a wonderful story from 2016 of a serial bootstrapper, then Tanga CEO, Jeremy Young. He built a wonderful e-commerce business similar to Groupon, but with no outside money. Sramana Mitra: Let’s got back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?
Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Bootstrapper Bootstraps to $27M
If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course. This is a wonderful story of a serial bootstrapper, Tanga CEO Jeremy Young. He has built a wonderful e-commerce business similar to Groupon, but with no outside money. Sramana Mitra: Let’s got back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Given that you know nothing about me and you’re showing me something that doesn’t work for me at all, how do you take a prospect like me and turn me into somebody who can actually find useful things on your site? Jeremy Young: You would have to give us your email address and
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: There is a company that we have done a case study on in Utah called Steals.com that’s in the baby product category and that does one deal a day. Jeremy Young: Exactly. This was before any of those companies existed. We’ve been doing this for almost 10 years now. Sramana Mitra: When you
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 5)
Jeremy Young: The second company was called Uberplay. That was a company that was going to take the best games out of Europe and trying to get the license for English-speaking markets, produce these games in China or Europe, and distribute them in the United States. We went over there and signed a lot of
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your involvement in that company and how long you were involved in that company. Jeremy Young: I was involved for probably a couple of years. I ended up selling my interest back to them. Sramana Mitra: In what capacity? Jeremy Young: I came to them with the idea. They
Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was the premise of that partnership? Jeremy Young: Windows95.com was owned by Steve Jenkins. He was my partner in Virtual Servers. He pushed traffic from Windows95 to my company. He basically had advertisements for the web hosting product on his website. Sramana Mitra: How big did the company grow to be? Jeremy
