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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Maxine Manafy is the founder and CEO of Bunndle, an app distribution network. Prior to founding Bunndle she held various sales and executive positions with companies such as Viximo, Mochi Media, Yahoo, KLA-Tencor and Intel. She is a graduate of San Jose State University and Stanford.
Have you noticed how platform eco-systems are cropping up everywhere these days? There was a time when only large companies used to market platforms. These days, everyone and their mother launches software platforms. Of course, there are some that are much bigger than the others. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android on the mobile side, Salesforce.com’s
Sramana: What kind of penetration do you think you have into your TAM, specifically to sales forces? Chris Cabrera: I think it is still a pretty nascent market and the number is still low. Sramana: Is the TAM basically your revenue and Callidus’ revenue? Chris Cabrera: Oracle has some products in this area, and they
Sramana Mitra: The situation that scares me a bit is a “blind leading the blind” situation. Dan Hickey: That view doesn’t give the consumer enough credit. In survey after survey, consumers say that their doctors are their most trusted people in their health ecosystem. Expert advice would be next to that, and peers come in
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Sramana: What are some of the key strategic points today? What needs to be done for you to scale to a $500 million company? Chris Cabrera: We need continued solid execution with growth rates exceeding 30%. We are the only pure-play SaaS comp player as well as the experts in comp. We have terabytes of
Startups are a Social Good by Brian S. Cohen [This is the third in a four-part series of excerpts from Brian S. Cohen and John Kador’s book, What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know, which is available on Amazon and at independent bookstores.] I approach angel investing with a basic premise: startups are good