Sramana: How has your latest product, ShopBuilder, impacted your business strategy and operations? Joe White: It has brought us from a consumer website builder to an SMB website builder very quickly. The types of customers using our tool now are people whom we never suspected would be our principal users. They are people who want
More than 50 business leaders, technology innovators and thought leaders from academia will share their insights with more than 800 attendees on how CIOs can pilot their organizations toward their goals at the ninth annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on May 22, 2012 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This year’s theme is “Piloting the
Sramana Mitra: I guess the obvious question, one you must get all the time, is, is it safe? Matthew J. Schitz: Yes. It’s interesting, because when I was CEO at DocuSign, at the same stage of the company, we were pioneering electronic signatures. The market at that time was signing things on paper. The first
Sramana: How do the two of you divide your roles in the company? Wendy Tan White: I focus on the vision, brand, and growth of the company. Joe understands the operations and is strong on the structures of the business. Joe White: That’s why we demerged Moonfruit from the French company we bought once we
Sramana Mitra will be speaking about “Building Kolkata’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline” at a TiE Kolkata event on Friday, March 23, 2012. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. at the DPSC Centre of Excellence in Kolkata, India. Pradeep Udtha, Strategy Lead for Cloud, Devices & Startups, Microsoft Corporation, will also be giving a presentation. To register, please
Cloud storage is a cost-effective way for businesses to secure data or quickly recover them when they’ve been lost. And there are plenty of cloud storage companies out there serving businesses of all sizes in every possible industry. Though one of many, Symform offers its clients something a little different, as my talk with CEO Matthew
Sramana: Whom did you raise money from to buy the French domain name company, and what was the impact on Moonfruit? Joe White: We raised it from U.S.-based VC firms, primarily Stevens, which is based in Arkansas. We saw the revenues of the firm we acquired triple once we were able to cross-sell the Moonfruit
As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1M/1M public roundtables. There are no roundtables for a couple of weeks when I am traveling in India. We will be holding future roundtables on: Thursday, April 12, 8