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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: What's your background vis-a-vis education? Luke Norris: I'm a high school graduate. I was...

If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. I wrote a book called Billion Dollar Unicorns a few years back. Writing this book took me through the extensive process of talking to entrepreneurs who have built tech companies with valuations above a billion dollars. While there is a tremendous amount of serendipity involved in any extraordinary success story, one recurring theme comes up in these case studies. I am particularly excited to share this nugget because it applies broadly to all classes of entrepreneurial ventures. Bootstrap fi...

If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Let's start with a quote from Marc Andreessen: "At our venture capital firm we only invest in a sort of Silicon Valley–style tech. We see 3,000 inbound deals a year. And those are inbound and coming through our referral network, so those are sort of prequalified. We can do maybe 15 or 20 investments out of the 3,000 a year. So I like to say our day job is crushing entrepreneurs' hopes and dreams. Our main skill is saying no, and getting people to not hate us." Sour...

Friends, Many of you have responded to our collaboration requests on LinkedIn. Many of you have reached out to us independently, wanting to add value to the work we do in developing the tech entrepreneurship pipeline around the world. We are now much better equipped to harness your desire to contribute in a concrete way. In March 2021, we launched an initiative to develop Udemy courses based on the 1Mby1M methodology and case studies. Now, that initiative is quite far along, enough to give us ammunition to vastly scale our impact. Most importantly, now we can give YOU a clear path to take this...

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 fro...