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#70: Bootstrapped to $3M and Raised a VC Round Before a $200M PE Transaction – Jafar Owainati

Jafar Owainati was a mechanical engineer before he got an MBA in entrepreneurship and decided to start a software company with two friends. They looked at many ideas before building software to help sales engineers … Listen to this episode

#69: Bootstrapped a Fintech Payments Platform to $10M ARR in 3 Years – Miles Schwartz

Miles Schwartz a cofounder of Zūm Rails, a fast-growing fintech based in Canada with a growing worldwide presence. In just 3.5 years and without any outside funding, Zūm Rails has grown from a focused startup … Listen to this episode

#55: Bootstrapped to $10M ARR with Community-Led Growth and Services – Lloyed Lobo

Lloyed Lobo is the co-founder and former president of Boast.ai, a leading platform to help software companies in the US and Canada redeem available government tax credits. Technology-powered Boast.ai was launched in 2017 after starting a … Listen to this episode

#27: Bootstrapped to Over $3M ARR with Software for SaaS Product Managers – Sarah Hum

Sarah Hum studied graphic design in university before she discovered she loved to help software startups create new products. She moved to Silicon Valley to work at Facebook as a product designer, but a side … Listen to this episode

#22: Grew a niche vertical startup into a global industry leader – Scott Pickard

Scott Pickard didn't know he was embarking on a 15-year software entrepreneurial journey when he signed on to manage a horse veterinary practice in Calgary, Canada. But they had built some internal software to help … Listen to this episode

#17: Creatively Grew and Sold a Global Threat Intelligence Product with Practical Funding – Karl Swannie

Karl Swannie was a geographer working in the scenic city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, when he started analyzing social media data based on location. He quickly saw there was valuable real-time information that was … Listen to this episode