How to bootstrap a company while fully employed
I’m excited to have today’s guest because he’s the kind of person who’s been on all those forums that I’ve been on forever, building his company quietly and making it into something really big. He did it without ever having that big TechCrunch moment where they say, “Look at me, I raised so much money.”
In fact, for a long time, I’m going to say that TechCrunch would not want to cover you because if you did say, “Look at me,” it would be, “Look at me. I’m working at a company while building my company on the side and look at me, I continue to work for five years at my full-time job.”
No one gets excited about that. That’s not a sexy story, but it’s definitely a Mixergy story.
Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm which enables you to create online forms easily. It’s super simple and very functional. We’ll talk about that in the interview.
Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm which enables you to create online forms easily.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I do interviews for real entrepreneurs who listen to my interviews and then they go out there, they build their companies and ideally, they come back here and do interviews themselves about how they built their businesses. Today’s guest has been through what I call the Mixergy circle.
Aytekin: Yes, big fan of Mixergy for a very long time. I’ve been watching your show for many, many years.
Andrew: Well, thanks.
Aytekin: I’m very happy to be here.
Andrew: I’m really excited to have you on here. You don’t understand. I got knee deep into your world. I’ve known your company. The person you’re listening to right now, his name is Aytekin Tank. He is the founder of JotForm. JotForm enables you to create online forms super easily. They’ll host it for you. You can put it on your website. It’s super simple...
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