Bootstrapping A Startup With A Paycheck with Sramana Mitra

You CAN Start A Company While Holding Onto A Full-time Job, Learn Business Models, Innovation Principles, and WIN

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

What Will I Learn?

• Through in-depth interviews with successful entrepreneurs who began their businesses while still getting a paycheck, gain insights on bootstrapping a startup wh
• What the 1Mby1M Bootstrapping with a Paycheck methodology is.
• Why to bootstrapping with a paycheck vs. looking for funding early on.
• When to bring on a team when bootstrapping with a paycheck.
• When to quit your job while bootstrapping with a paycheck.
• What the challenges are while bootstrapping with a paycheck and how to overcome them.
• How to scale your startup when bootstrapping with limited time and resources.
• When to start raising funds for your startup and go to VCs as kings, not beggars.
• What exit options are when bootstrapping with a paycheck.

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 and who can’t afford to quit their jobs.
• 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.