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