If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Following up on our 'Bootstrapping Using Services' and 'Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later' case studies, here is the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Following my conversation with Co-founder Rohyt Belani in 2015, PhishMe was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Rohyt Belani: I am originally from India. I was born and raised in India. I was there till the age of 22. I did my engineering in India. Sramana Mitra: Where in India are you from? Rohyt Belani: Bombay. I came to the US to pursue my graduate studies at Carnegie-Mellon back in 2000. Sramana Mitra: What were you working on at Carnegie-Mellon? Rohyt Belani: I went to an institute called the Information
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If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. As a variation on our 'Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later' theme, we also see many entrepreneurs who have bootstrapped a first company (or business), and then gone onto venture-fund a second. Christian Chabot built Tableau Software in this mode. Sridhar Vembu built Zoho. We have numerous examples of this tried-and-true path. Something to consider for first-time entrepreneurs chasing venture capital and Unicorns. Since speaking with cVidya Founder Alon Aginsky in 2015, cVidya was acquired by Amdocs in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Alon Aginsky: I was born and raised in Israel. After completing my army duty, I found myself in New York as a young entrepreneur trying to make it. Luckily, I was able to pick an opportunity and
If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Here's yet another case in point in our Bootstrapping Using Services series. Founder Manish Sood was scaling Reltio super fast when we spoke in 2015, and had raised venture capital, consistent with our theme Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Manish Sood: I was born in the northern part of India. I grew up and went to school there. I went to an engineering college in the southern part of India, which was a new experience for me from a location perspective and getting acclimatized to the overall culture and environment. I trained as a Mechanical Engineer. Once I graduated, I started working in India. I worked there for about four years applying my technology skills to solve problems starting with