How to Bootstrap Startups by Piggybacking with Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Innovation & Business Model of How Startups Bootstrap by Piggybacking on Another Company's PaaS Platform

Created by: Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million / 1Mby1M

What Will I Learn?

• Through in-depth interviews with successful startup founders, learn what piggybacking strategy is and how to use it to bootstrap a startup.
• Which new innovations and business models will allow for bootstrapping an idea to validation and profitability.
• When to bring on a team while bootstrapping a startup.
• When to start raising funds for your startup and go to VCs as kings, not beggars.
• How to scale your startup when you are bootstrapping with limited resources.
• What exit options are when bootstrapping a startup by piggybacking.

Requirements

• The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Target audience

• Ambitious entrepreneurs with limited resources who want to pursue ideas for which they have both passion and expertise.
• Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
• Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of being accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.
• Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them.
• Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.