How to Bootstrap a Startup to Exit with Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Real World Founders and Investors on How to Bootstrap a Startup to Exit and How it Feeds Innovation

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

What Will I Learn?

• Through in-depth interviews with startup founders whose companies were bootstrapped and later acquired, gain insights on bootstrapping a startup to exit.
• From additional interviews with buy-side executives illuminate the psychology of buyers, learn how bootstrapping to exit looks from the perspective of buyers.
• What the 1Mby1M Bootstrapping to Exit methodology is.
• Under which circumstances to consider bootstrapping to exit.
• When to bring on a team when bootstrapping to exit.
• What the challenges are while bootstrapping to exit and how to overcome them.
• How to scale your startup when bootstrapping to exit.
• Which exit options are available when bootstrapping..

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 a multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
• Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator 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.