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If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This is a wonderful bootstrapping with a paycheck story of a really smart, scrappy entrepreneur, Suuchi Ramesh, Founder CEO of Suuchi. 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? Suuchi Ramesh: I was born in India. I spent the first 15 years in Madras, which is Chennai now. My famil...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Koncert (formerly ConnectLeader) CEO / CTO Senraj Soundar had bootstrapped his company to over $10 million in revenue before raising VC funds when we spoke in 2017. We love stories like this that reinforce our philosophy: "Do not go to VCs as beggars, go as kings!" Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, rai...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2019, Faction Founder Luke Norris had executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy from Colorado. Faction was recently acquired by ORIX. 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? Luke Norris: I was born in Nevada. Sramana Mitra: W...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You may have read our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, when we spoke in 2020, 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu had built a $6 million SaaS business using this methodology with just $1 million in funding. What's more, he had done it entirely from Romania and selling to largely a US customer base. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let's start ...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. SignalWire Founder CEO Anthony Minessale is building a very interesting programmable communication platform company that has its roots in Wisconsin. This conversation is from 2020. 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? Anthony Minessale: I'm from the Midwest. I live in W...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2020, Lilia Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify, had built a virtual company with zero employees, all freelancers and scaled it without outside financing. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to you. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Lilia Stoyanov: I was born in Bulgaria....

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. What is the best bootstrapping tactic for B2B startups? Solve an acute customer pain. Get paid an advance to do so. Leeyo Software Founder Jagan Reddy followed this strategy to bootstrap to $20 million. He built a niche software that solved a very specific problem and started selling it to enterprises for a lot of money. This story from 2016 is a textbook case study of how well you can sc...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We're big fans of bootstrapping to exit case studies. Imagine Easy Solutions' Co-founder and Co-CEO Neal Taparia shares his wonderful journey. They scaled the business to over $20 million in revenue without investment and sold to Chegg in 2016. 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...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Aspera Co-founder Michelle Munson started the company she began after being laid off. Aspera was her realization that she could not only control her own career path, but also create jobs for other people in a culture she established. I hope this conversation from 2009 inspires everyone who has been let go by their employers. Aspera was acquired by IBM in 2014. SM: Michelle, where does you...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Waveform CEO Sina Khanifar started tinkering with bootstrapped entrepreneurship way back in college. When we spoke in 2020, this had certainly paid off. 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? Sina Khanifar: I was born in Iran. We moved to the UK when I was one. My parents did ...