2025 Resolution: Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck [Video]

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 …