From Developer to Entrepreneur Case Studies | Sramana Mitra
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The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In each course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.
Sramana believes, strongly, that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial capitalism can be democratized, and wealth can be created in the middle of the pyramid using capitalistic principles. In the next 2-3 decades, the potential for distributed capitalism is very high and the outcome should be extremely positive around the world. That is the mission upon which her current work with One Million by One Million is based.
1Mby1M has had much success in helping techie entrepreneurs learn the nuances of technology entrepreneurship and make the transition to successful entrepreneurs by learning the business side of startups.
In this course, we offer case studies of entrepreneurs who have made this transition successfully, in their own words.
Through these case studies, developers who are aspiring entrepreneurs can learn what the journey entails.
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1Introduction
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2From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur
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3Bootstrapping with Sramana Mitra
At 1Mby1M, we’ve been advocating bootstrapped entrepreneurship for 15+ years. Throughout our journey, we have done extensive research on how entrepreneurs are successfully bootstrapping companies and finding different degrees and nuances of success. This bootstrapping course is a required starting point for all entrepreneurs, see the External Resource.
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4Case Study Based Learning and Methodology
The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In this course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.
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5From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue
Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. NLP Cloud CEO Julien Sanlinas provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow.
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6IntelligentLabs Introduction
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7IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes on Building a $5M+ E-commerce Business
IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes lives the life of a digital nomad. He started life as a techie, and with a very small team and a co-founder, has built a $5M+ niche e-commerce business selling supplements. Excellent story full of lessons and nuances.
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8Thought Leader in AI: Starmind CEO Marc Vontobel
Marc is yet another techie who has made a successful transition to being an entrepreneur. In this interview, he discusses his journey, as well as a lot of the nuances of positioning his venture, Starmind, for success.
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9Thought Leader in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner
Cyber Security is probably the tech industry’s more prolific segment. James discusses a specific approach to network security that has become increasingly more contemporary and relevant: segment-based policy.
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10Developers Bootstrap with Paycheck, Grow to 1M Users: TryHackMe CEO Ben Spring
Ben and his co-founder are two techies who started by bootstrapping with a paycheck. With zero marketing budget, they have scaled. TryHackMe to a million users and significant revenue.
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11From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7Shifts
Jordan started as a solo entrepreneur in a small province of Saskatchewan, Canada, and has built a heavily funded, high growth SaaS business. Fascinating journey!
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12From Solo Techie Entrepreneur to High Growth Enterprise AI Success Story
I always love covering stories about my readers. Findability Sciences CEO Anand Mahurkar has been following my blog since 2010. He has built a terrific, fundamentals-focused AI company. And I am thrilled :-)
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13From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix
Inspiring story of a passionate technical founder who has built one of the iconic fast growth Unicorns in the tech industry.
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14Rapid Growth and $58M in Financing:Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer
Dominik has built a 230-people virtual company and raised $58 Million in Financing. But first, he and his Brazilian co=founder bootstrapped to $1M ARR before raising a penny! Clever SEO strategy was at the heart of the first success.
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15Bootstrapping Using Services from The Netherlands to a $300M+ Exit
Founder Victor Allis bootstrapped Quintiq to $30M, raised funding, and then sold the company for over $300M. Activote is his second startup, currently self-funded.
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16From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Hevo Data CEO Manish Jethani
Manish discusses his various experiences with customer validation in great depth, as well as his journey from being a hard-core developer geek to a successful entrepreneur CEO who has raised multiple rounds of venture capital from top firms including Sequoia Capital.
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17From MIT PhD Student to ML Entrepreneur: Verta.ai CEO Manasi Vartak
Manasi made the journey from a technologist to a founder CEO, raised over $10M in funding, and has built over $5M in revenue with her first startup. Amazing execution!
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18From Developer to 2-Time AI Entrepreneur with Exits: Behamics CEO Valon Xhafa
Valon is a software developer who made a successful transition to an entrepreneur and had a quick exit with his first venture.His second venture is already at $5M+ in revenues with just a pre-seed round of financing. This venture, Behemics, has already received two acquisition offers. Fabulous story!
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19From Developer to ML Entrepreneur: People Power Company Co-founder David Moss
We have a huge audience of developers, engineers and programmers who want to transition to becoming successful entrepreneurs. This conversation with David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company, explores the journey of such a developer. Fantastic story!
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20From Developer to ML Entrepreneur: Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-founder of Arize
This conversation explores the journey of a developer who made the transition to becoming a successful entrepreneurs. Fantastic story!
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21From Hardcore Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Cybellum CEO Slava Bronfman
Slava was a Cyber Security geek in the Israeli military. In this interview, he tells the story of his transition to a successful entrepreneur. Cybellum has been acquired by LG but continues to operate as an independent business unit subsidiary within the conglomerate. Awesome story with numerous lessons for geeks who aspire to be entrepreneurs.
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22From Hard Core Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Francis Dinha, CEO of OpenVPN
Francis has bootstrapped OpenVPN to $3M ARR with JUST $1M in financing. Wonderful story!
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23From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur with Exit: ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi
Mahendra transitioned from a developer to a successful entrepreneur with his first company, exited it, and then started ACCELQ. ACCELQ already has 200 customers and is a profitable, bootstrapped company growing fast. A wonderful and inspiring story!
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24Medisafe Cofounder Rotem Building a Medication Management Startup Through Pivots
Rotem represents yet another point of view of a software developer/technologist who successfully transitioned to an entrepreneur in an unfamiliar domain: pharmaceutical.In that journey, he paired up with his brother who was more the business person in the duo. This is a common strategy for developers to become entrepreneurs, although, I generally believe that developers can learn the business side as well.The story also traces the pivots that were necessary to find product-market fit, as well as the failures that triggered each pivot.
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25Thought Leader in FinTech: My Digital Money CEO Guy Gotslak
Guy transitioned from being a hands on developer to running a consulting company, and then eventually, to becoming a Crypto entrepreneur. In this interview, we discuss the nuances of his journey, as well as the trends in the Crypto world that are opening up opportunities.
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26$10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta
LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta tells a textbook story of a developer turned entrepreneur. He and his co-founder started by bootstrapping with a paycheck, validated the hypothesis, and then quit their jobs with $10M revenue and $18M in funding. We love stories like this, as you know :-)
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27Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services
Quavo Co-founder David Chmielewski transitioned from a developer to an entrepreneur by leveraging his solid domain knowledge in a particular area of FinTech: dispute resolution for credit card transactions. He and his cofounders effectively used bootstrapping using services and piggybacked on the Pega Systems platform.
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28Thought Leader in Cyber Security: Stellar Cyber CoFounder and CTO Aimei Wei
Stellar Cyber Co-founder and CTO Aimei Wei talks about the Cyber Analytics space and how her company analyzes the entire attack surface. It’s a hard problem, and she explains the nuances of technical and go to market strategy.
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29Conclusion