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If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Booksy Co-founder and CEO Stefan Batory started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he's running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS and marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey! Here is our conversation from early 2020, plus you can listen to our podcast interview from 2021 here. Sramana Mitra: Let's go back to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you're from, where you were born, raised, and in what kind of backgroun...
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Bootstrapping with Services is a tried and true strategy, including for building Unicorns. In our 2012 story, Alteryx Executive Chairman Dean Stoecker talks about raising a Series A with $10 million in the bank. Today, Alteryx is a $3+ billion market cap public company. Dean bootstrapped with services early on, and then raised VC money. Sramana Mitra: Dean, let's start at the beginning of your personal story. What is the context for your entrepreneurial journey? Where are you from?...
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. ActiveCampaign Founder CEO Jason VandeBoom had built a disciplined, profitable business when we spoke in 2019 and had scaled it to $40 million in 2017 revenue. The company was first bootstrapped using services, and later raised ~$20 million in funding. 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? Jason VandeBoom: I was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin about an hour out...
If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. I am a huge fan of virtual companies. Here is a conversation from 2019 about a virtual company built with excellent execution by a Russian entrepreneur, Percona Founder CEO Peter Zaitsev. 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? Peter Zaitsev: I was born in what was the Soviet Union. I studied Math and Computer Science in Moscow State University. I started my first startup company ...