Bootstrapping to $12M+, Getting Ready to Raise Money: MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson (Part 3)

Sramana: It sounds like you avoided the problem of becoming diluted in a broad collaboration market by focusing on your original premise. Is that a fair statement? Aaron Fulkerson: Yes. We went back to what we were originally very excited about. This is a valuable lesson for other entrepreneurs. You will have investors and other

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Thought Leaders in Outsourcing: Interview with David DeWolf, CEO of 3Pillar Global (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do the dynamics compare with Romania and Noida, for example? David DeWolf: What you find are different strengths in different areas. There is a very long history in India of doing outsourcing, but that history is also typically from the IT outsourcing and more about the operational aspects of IT rather than

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Bootstrapping to $12M+, Getting Ready to Raise Money: MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson (Part 2)

Sramana: When you started this project, what was going on in your mind? Why did you decide to tackle this particular problem? Aaron Fulkerson: I saw a problem I thought we could address. I had a bunch of friends who worked at WebSphere, and they had a couple of thousand people working on their project.

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Thought Leaders in Outsourcing: Interview with David DeWolf, CEO of 3Pillar Global (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you mention some clients specific to the media industry? David DeWolf: In addition to PBS, we have a company called Grab Networks. They are a very innovative company that was doing media sharing online. Acetrax, which is a European equivalent of Netflix and was acquired by Sky TV, is a client of

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Bootstrapping to $12M+, Getting Ready to Raise Money: MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson (Part 1)

Aaron Fulkerson is the co-founder and CEO of MindTouch, a company that offers a cloud-based self-service help center and knowledge-as-a-service platform. Prior to founding MindTouch he was a member of Microsoft’s Advanced Strategies and Policies division, where he worked on distributed systems research reporting to Microsoft chief strategy officer, Craig Mundie. Aaron has also helped

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Up to a point everybody has to do it. Nobody finances concepts anymore. Everybody wants to see a business. So you have to bootstrap up to a certain point. Then, when you are in Silicon Valley or a place that has a seed capital system, you can get money to start. If you

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