Bootstrapping A Startup With A Paycheck with Sramana Mitra

Bootstrapping A Startup With A Paycheck with Sramana Mitra, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 5, with 25 lectures, based on 119 reviews, and has 436 subscribers.

You will learn about 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. This course is ideal for individuals who are 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. or Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into a multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees. or Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups or Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them. or Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world. It is particularly useful for 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. or Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into a multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees. or Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups or Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them. or Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.

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Title: Bootstrapping A Startup With A Paycheck with Sramana Mitra

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 5

Number of Lectures: 25

Number of Published Lectures: 25

Number of Curriculum Items: 25

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 25

Original Price: $74.99

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What You Will 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.

Who Should Attend

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.

Target Audiences

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.

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.

In this course I take on the subject of starting a company while holding onto a full-time job. I speak with entrepreneurs who have built sizable businesses while navigating the messy, cash-strapped startup phases using their own paychecks, or their spouses’ income.

Risk appetite varies from entrepreneur to entrepreneur. Family situations, financial obligations, constraints, etc. often come on the way of entrepreneurial dreams. I hope to encourage entrepreneurs to adopt a flexible, pragmatic approach towards startups.

Is It Normal To Start Your Own Business While Working Full-time?

Yes. Good choice. Keep going.

Bootstrapping with a paycheck is a mode of entrepreneurship that has become a major trend. Entrepreneurs are starting companies in droves while still holding onto their full-time jobs.

Two interviewers, Amina Elahi from the Chicago Tribune and Katherine Harvey from Union Tribune San Diego, recently asked me the same question: If you are bootstrapping a startup with a paycheck, when is the right time to quit?

Here is what I told them:

Q: How can an entrepreneur know when it’s time to make the leap to full-time self-employment?

A: This is a personal choice that depends on your life circumstances, but at the minimum, you should definitely validate your business idea and determine whether it’s going to generate money. Talk to customers and make sure they’re buying. And keep in mind that most venture capitalists will not fund you until you’re running your business full-time. Before you go out to raise money, you’re going to need to quit your day job.

On this subject, there are two other relevant questions to consider:

Q: Should bootstrapping employees tell their bosses about their side businesses?

A:A lot of people are actually disclosing, and the bosses are quite fine with it. In the tech industry, employers are encouraging employees to become more entrepreneurial. It’s considered a plus, not a minus.
We are working with a bunch of companies, for example Oracle, where they are running corporate incubation programs. They’re asking employees to become entrepreneurial and call it Intrapreneurship. Corporations are willing to incubate these ideas, give resources and give money [in exchange for a piece of the company].

Q: How can you do this without angering your employer?

A: If you’re working for a tech company or a digital agency and building an e-commerce business on the side, if you tell your employer you’re doing that, the employer’s not going to care, as long as you don’t encroach upon your day job.
You should not encroach on your day job, because then you’re not going to fulfill your obligations to your employer. That is unethical.

Just to reinforce the point that you can and in many situations shouldbootstrap your startup with a paycheck, I share a conversation with an entrepreneur, Girish Navani, of eClinicalWorks, who has built a billion dollar Unicorn company in this mode. I hope you join us and listen to what he has to say.

The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur’s journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Bootstrapping Using a Paycheck

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: When to Quit Bootstrapping With A Paycheck

Lecture 3: Solo Entrepreneur Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to over $15M Revenue

Lecture 4: Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with Jay Perkins, CEO of Kettlebell Kings

Lecture 5: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Growing to 1M Users: TryHackMe CEO Ben Spring

Lecture 6: $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta

Lecture 7: Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn with a Paycheck

Lecture 8: How Itai Sadan Bootstrapped Duda First with a Paycheck and then Raised $100M

Lecture 9: Deciding When To Become An Entrepreneur

Lecture 10: Discussing Bootstrapping Using a Paycheck with Gene Caballero, GreenPal

Lecture 11: An Excellent Bootstrapping Case Study: San Banerjee, Co-founder at ADDA

Lecture 12: Bootstrapping with a Spouse's Paycheck with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

Lecture 13: Conversation with Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator

Lecture 14: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to Y Combinator with Ryan Chan, UpKeep Maintenance

Lecture 15: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to Techstars with Nevin Shetty, Blueprint Registry

Lecture 16: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck to Raising Funds Without Moving to Silicon Valley

Lecture 17: Investor Perspective on Bootstrapping with a Paycheck

Lecture 18: Investors Should Take Solo Founders More Seriously: Michael Smerklo, Next Coast

Lecture 19: Entrepreneur Couple Bootstraps an E-Commerce Business with Paychecks

Lecture 20: Other Bootstrapping Examples

Chapter 2: Bootstrapping With A Paycheck Case Studies

Lecture 1: More Case Studies

Chapter 3: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Practice Exercise 1

Lecture 2: Practice Exercise 2

Lecture 3: Bonus Lecture

Lecture 4: Sramana Mitra on One Million by One Million

Instructors

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

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5 stars: 105 votes

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