Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 3)

SM: So you were able to build a portfolio of skills by working as many different types of positions as you could? GR: Yes. By 1997 I had worked for a couple of different companies and had learned how to do sales, marketing, and manage channel partners. I already had the technical and engineering aspects.

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Just watched the movie and loved the poem: Invictus. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend it. It’s a really inspiring story of how Nelson Mandela used rugby to bring South Africa together as a nation. It was particularly moving to watch as World Cup fever is starting to catch on. Meanwhile, here is

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 13)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What about the angel-backed companies, what can they do to improve their chances of success? Corey: Reach out and get some of the coaching that you were just talking about [I was talking about 1M1M initiative] I’ve heard of other groups that do similar things, so

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: I think where you can get into some trouble is if you have too many of the ride-along types in the group, too many who are there more for the social aspect and don’t really have the time to put in. If you have too many

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 2)

SM: That is an interesting parallel to how Zoho is operated. They have a very large operation in Chennai, India. They recruit high school grads and train them in their own operations. It is great because unless these kids get into one of the top colleges in India, they are not going to learn much.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 11)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you charge a fee for entrepreneurs to present? Corey: We do not. We charge no fee. In fact, not only do we not charge a fee for presentation, but we give free coaching services, for which most angel groups that have some kind of coaching

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do with the deals that you decide not to invest in? Corey: I’d say a slim majority of them don’t end up qualifying for our group’s interest. I’d say it’s accurate that less than half of the deals that my brother and I

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