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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 a...

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 ...

If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Our tried-and-true mantra of Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later rings throughout Dave Elkington's story. As the Founder of InsideSales.com, he used services to bootstrap a Unicorn that had raised close to $140 million in VC funding when we spoke in 2015. Revenue was scaling 100% year over year then. InsideSales.com became known as XANT and was acquired by Aurea Software in 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born ...

If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Continuing with our theme of Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, here is Founder William King's story of bootstrapping Zephyr Health, a robust company in the healthcare industry. This strategy led to funding by Kleiner Perkins by the time we spoke in 2015. Zephyr Health was acquired in 2018 by Anju Software. 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 circumstances? William King: I was born in...