Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dan Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Kareo. He founded the company in 2004 with a vision of simplifying medical offices with web-based medical billing software. Prior to launching Kareo, Dan started creating technology for the healthcare industry in 2001 as a co-founder and managing

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Trend Spotting: Love and Startups

There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups – were founded by entrepreneur couples. These days, the startup world seems to nurture a lot more romance… Sometimes he is the CEO, sometimes she. Sometimes they switch roles.

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 7)

Sramana: How much money have you raised to get where you are today? Aydin Mirzaee: We have not raised any investment money. From time to time we have applied and won some government grants, but nothing major. We are basically a bootstrapped company. The co-founders did not take money for the first two years, and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at an entrepreneur working in Houston, for example, there is a strong likelihood that that entrepreneur may have also [gotten involved] in the oil & gas industry, whereas somebody working in San Francisco may not. Lars Olrik: What is interesting to see, if you look at healthcare, for example, is

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Thursday, April 11 – 169th Free Online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 169th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 6)

Sramana: The survey market is quite full, and SurveyMonkey is a dominant player in the market. How did you compete against them? Aydin Mirzaee: In the beginning we were focusing on the Canadian market. We met governmental regulations that gave us a niche market. Once we had that funding, we started to focus on expanding

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That industry is the earliest adaptor of technology. Joanne Kinsella: Yes. It is interesting that you bring that up. From a cultural standpoint, I hear Lars talk about healthcare and oil & gas, and I think about representing technology to Wall Street for the last 10 years and how completely different those different

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 5)

Sramana: Essentially you had to reposition yourselves in the marketplace. Where did you find your sweet spot? Aydin Mirzaee: We decided to focus entirely on the super niche market and dominate that particular market before moving on. That would let us be a big fish in a small pond, and we would worry about the

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