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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

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Vinod wants to raise a significant amount of money to buy out an IP vendor that sells semiconductor interconnect IP, and offer value added services around them. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. Choose one segment, one service, and one geography.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

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I think that Edward can not only build a successful outsourcing services company based on this premise, he can also build an IP portfolio and potentially a platform product that would make it more compelling, specialized, and higher-margin business than any old labor arbitrage shop. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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