What I’m Looking for in an Entrepreneur By guest author Brian S. Cohen [This is the second in a four-part series of excerpts from Brian S. Cohen and John Kador’s forthcoming book, What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know, which is available on Amazon and at independent bookstores.] What am I looking for in
Sramana: What did you do, strategically, after you achieved profitability? Dan Rodrigues: Once we turned the corner and made positive cash flow we re-invested it in our business by purchasing more advertising, buying another server or hiring another customer support representative. We started to grow the business slowly but surely. That kicked off act three
Sramana Mitra: Are you a venture-funded company, bootstrapped company, or something else? What is the genesis of your business? Kristin Muhlner: We are venture backed by NEA and by Revolution. SM: What is the revenue range of your company?
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Sramana: So the medical billing companies were not the ones paying you? Dan Rodrigues: We sold our software as a monthly fee to the doctors. For us. the revenue was about activating licenses with the doctors via the medical billing offices. We were building out forecasts around a quicker adoption cycle. Doctors were not adopting
Sramana Mitra: You are talking a lot about domain-specific ontologies and workflows. How many domains are you covering right now? Kristin Muhlner: Today we have five service-based ontologies. We have one for food and beverage, one for hospitality, one for retail, one for healthcare products and one for government. All of those are under a
Sramana: How much did you raise in your first round? Dan Rodrigues: We raised $2 million. That was in 2005. Sramana: What is interesting in healthcare IT startups in that time is that the rest of the market had not figured out that it was a hot space. VCs realize that something is hot at
Following the annual Game Developers Choice awards, Wired looks at employment in the gaming industry and why some are leaving Microsoft.