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Kolkata doesn't have many product startups. True. Most startups are services based. True. There is nothing wrong with services companies. Technical skill development in India has happened at scale in the services companies. It would be tremendously helpful to have large scale skill development happen in Eastern India. Entrepreneurs won't build tech #startups without tech skilled people. An ecosystem has many dimensions. Also Bootstrapping tech product startups using services is a tried and true technique. In Kolkata, Abhishek Rungta has built a very successful services company, is an...

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. Adding to our roster of Bootstrapping Using Services case studies, here's my conversation with PMG.net Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles from 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Tell us a bit about where you come from, where you were born and raised, and in what kind of background. Robert Castles: I was born in Columbia, South Carolina. I spent the first half of my life there through to college. I have always been interested in...

If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Continuing with our Bootstrapping Using Services coverage, we bring you HighQ Founder CEO Ajay Patel's story from London in 2014. Thomson Reuters acquired HighQ in 2019. Sramana Mitra: Let's start with some back story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Ajay Patel: I was born in London about 42 years ago. I've lived here all my life. My origins are actually Indian. My father is from India and my mother was born in Fiji, but she'...