In this portion of our interview with Manoj we take a deeper look at the person behind the success. We delve into the individual traits which have built success. SM: What is your own personal core competency? Is it engineering, is it sales, marketing? MS: I would say that it’s a combination of product management [...]
In part 4 of our interview we discuss Manoj’s second venture, Webify. SM: In the case of Webify you were funding it with your own money, right? MS: Right, the first million bucks, I wrote those checks myself. The interesting part with Webify was I started it in March 2002. I had the hardest time [...]
In part three of our interview Manoj discusses the various acquisition offers, as well as his exit strategy. SM: In mid to late 2000 the Internet market started to crash, how did it go for your company?. MS: In late 2000 it didn’t crash for us; we had about four other offers for acquisitions in [...]
In our second part of the interview we delve into Exterprise, the first business venture by Manoj. SM: What was your first company? MS: It was basically a business collaboration platform, a company called Exterprise. We started that in June of 1998 and we sold it in March of 2001. We grew pretty rapidly from [...]
Our Serial Entreprenuer series continues with a fascinating interview with Manoj Saxena. In this first segment we explore his background up to the point of his first venture. SM: Where did you grow up? MS: I grew up in India. A city called Hyderabad most of my life and then we were down in Bombay. [...]
SM: Have you read any of my writings on the entrepreneurship in India? PO: Yes I have, and we have talked some on this. What are you referring to specifically? SM: Well I did a series under the title of Concept Arbitrage. If you look at Indian entrepreneurship right now there is a huge amount [...]
After founding Interwoven, Peng Ong become involved in some unique projects with the government of Singapore and even tried retiring. However, he discovered he still had a passion for entreprenuership and founded his next company, Encentuate. We also gain some insight into his future goals. SM: After Interwoven did you found Encentuate right away, or [...]
We continue our interview with Peng Ong and talk about his next venture, Interwoven. Here Peng addresses some very interesting topics and his personal philosophy on risk. SM: So tell us the story of Interwoven. You put in your own money? PO: I think the interesting thing if you look at my career, usually the [...]
