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Thursday, May 23, 2024, 8:00 AM PDT As part of the 1Mby1M global virtual accelerator, Sramana Mitra offers FREE online mentoring roundtable for entrepreneurs
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. I've always been bullish about niche e-commerce. Here's the story from 2016 of an entrepreneur who had successfully bootstrapped a company in high-end light fixtures, Elite Fixtures CEO Steven Annese. 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? Steven Annese: I'm a child of an Italian immigrant. I was born in New Jersey. It was in the 70s when most of the Italians ...
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. In 2021, Oomnitza Co-founder CEO Arthur Lozinski spoke with me about an excellent pivot that is quite enlightening. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Arthur Lozinski: Both my parents were from the Soviet Union. I was born in the Soviet Union in a country called Latvia. It was in 1989 right before the wall fell. Both my parents grew up in the Soviet Union. There is a...
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We continue our coverage of bootstrapping using services with a conversation from 2020 with Codesigned Founder CEO Jake Weaver. 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? Jake Weaver: I'm from a very small town in the middle of Missouri in the Midwest called Lynn Creek, which had a population of just 289 people. It's nowhere near any of the tech industries today with t...
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Some of us have worked relentlessly for decades to bring about the change in India from a largely services-driven technology industry to one that today produces credible products sold all over the world. Ameyo is one of the early examples of this shift, and Co-founder CEO Sachin Bhatia is an early visionary in this journey. Ameyo was acquired by Exotel in 2021. Sachin is also a long-term reader of this blog. It is always a great pleasure for me to do the Entrepreneur Journeys of my lo...