#172: Why Long-Term Bootstrapping Still Works in Event Mgt. SaaS – Raju Patel
by PE Support | Nov 27, 2025
Raju Patel founded eShow over 25 years ago after building a speaker portal for a magazine company and realizing he had a repeatable software product. What began as a one-man shop in suburban Chicago evolved into a robust event-management platform...
#171: Lessons from a 9-Year Bootstrap Journey to a Private Equity Exit – Dharshan Rangegowda
by PE Support | Nov 20, 2025
Dharshan Rangegowda, founder of ScaleGrid, left a decade-long engineering career at Microsoft to solve a painful database operations problem he had lived firsthand. After early missteps selling to enterprises, he shifted to helping developers manage...
#170: Why Most SaaS Acquirers Still Want Profitable Growth in 2025 – Gaurav Bhasin
by PE Support | Nov 13, 2025
Gaurav Bhasin is the founder and managing director of Allied Advisers, an M&A advisory firm whose principals have completed over 100 sell-side transactions for software and tech founders. After two decades in investment banking and tech M&A,...
#169: Practical Pivot and Relaunch Created Profitable 200% Growth – Natalie Barbu
by PE Support | Nov 6, 2025
Natalie Barbu is the founder and CEO of Rella, a SaaS platform built to streamline collaboration and workflows for social media teams and agencies. She began as a YouTube creator, grew a following of over 300,000, and then identified the fragmentation of...