Best of Bootstrapping: The Buy Side of Bootstrap to Exit Startups

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I am sure you are following the Bootstrapping to Exit (let’s call it B2E) articles. Last time, I showed you some case studies of larger companies who are acquiring bootstrapped startups.

In this post, I will double-click down on the buy-side psychology of the B2E phenomenon.

There are several factors that play into a relatively larger company acquiring a smaller player.

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Best of Bootstrapping: More Bootstrapping to Exit Case Studies

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I hope you read my article Bootstrapping to Exit. As a follow-up, let me offer you some case studies.

From Freshworks Has Acquired Nine Capital Efficient Startups:

All the nine acquisitions by Freshworks have been for undisclosed amounts. Cloud-based video collaboration platform 1CLICK, acquired in 2015, was founded in 2012 and had raised an undisclosed seed round from Blume Ventures and The Chennai Angels in 2014.

Online social discovery platform Frilp, acquired in 2015, was founded in 2012 and had raised $500K in funding from angel investors, including Freshdesk CEO Girish Mathrubootham in August 2014 and an undisclosed venture round with Microsoft Accelerator. It had over 100K users.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to Exit

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Over the last decade and more, I’ve had the privilege of working with a large number of bootstrapped entrepreneurs. These include self-financed companies and also modestly capitalized startups that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping. [You can take our free Bootstrapping Course to review these.]

For our Seed Capital series of podcasts and blog interviews, I’ve interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who are playing in the early stage game.

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568th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Abinash Saikia, EnCloudEn

Abinash Saikia, Co-founder of EnCloudEn and former 1Mby1M Premium member, has successfully bootstrapped his venture to an exit and discusses the process in great depth.

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568th Roundtable Recording with Abinash Saikia, EnCloudEn

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Roundtable Recap: March 24 – Spotlight on Bootstrapping to Exit

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Abinash Saikia, Co-founder of EnCloudEn and former 1Mby1M Premium member. Abinash has successfully bootstrapped his venture to an exit and discussed the process in great depth.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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558th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya

Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. We review his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction.

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558th Roundtable Recording with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya

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