Posted on Wednesday, Jan 8th 2025
Do you need an inspirational story to start 2025?
Fred Luddy started ServiceNow, a Multi-Billion Dollar Unicorn, as a solo entrepreneur bootstrapping with a paycheck.
Fred shared his early entrepreneurial journey with me in great depth.
Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches.
I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. You can access it through One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), my global virtual accelerator for tech startups.
I have been running 1Mby1M since 2010 from Silicon Valley. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration.
Over the years, I have done case study after case study of how extraordinarily successful entrepreneurs have, indeed, started their entrepreneurial journey by bootstrapping with a paycheck.
Bills HAVE to be paid.
A first-time entrepreneur’s journey involves a steep learning curve.
Why not learn from people who have done it already, before jumping in with …