If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You may have read our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, when we spoke in 2020, 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu had built a $6 million SaaS business using this methodology with just $1 million in funding. What's more, he had done it entirely from Romania and selling to largely a US customer base. Excellent story! 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? Florin Cornianu: I'm the CEO and Co-founder of 123FormBuilder. We are a form-building SaaS. The company is in Romania. I was born in a small city in the northern part of Romania. I'm an engineer by profession. I graduated with computer science degree from a large university in the city where I live. Sramana Mitra: When did you graduate? Florin
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. SignalWire Founder CEO Anthony Minessale is building a very interesting programmable communication platform company that has its roots in Wisconsin. This conversation is from 2020. 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? Anthony Minessale: I'm from the Midwest. I live in Wisconsin where I've lived all my life. I have been involved in computers since high school. After high school, I became interested in how the internet works. At that time, the internet was starting to take off. I started to teach myself programming. I spent many years studying and trying to offer things like tech support. Sometime around late 90s, I started working with an ISP that was providing web hosting. It was a new idea of trying to consolidate web hosting into a more
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During this week's roundtable, we had an excellent discussion around positioning a product in a crowded market. Skillkeepr Ron Maitra from Toronto, Canada pitched SkillKeepr, an HCM product. HCM is an extremely crowded marketplace. I like how Ron and his partner Shibu are going about navigating the market. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: If you haven't already, please study our Udemy courses, free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1Mby1M public roundtables. We will be holding future roundtables on Thursday at 8am PST: February 22 – Register Here. March 7 – Register Here. March 28 – Register Here. April 11 – Register Here. April 18 – Register Here. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1Mby1M premium program. If you have any questions about the
If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2020, Lilia Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify, had built a virtual company with zero employees, all freelancers and scaled it without outside financing. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to you. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Lilia Stoyanov: I was born in Bulgaria. It was part of the communist block before 1989. After that, I moved to the UK and I traveled a lot. At the very beginning, it was sports that made me more ambitious and more willing to try new things. When you compete, you never stop. To become a champion, you need to start over and over again. It wasn't a straightforward journey into entrepreneurship although I'm the ninth generation. My family is just from one place. They were consolidating businesses and traveling from