Sramana Mitra: What we hear from people is that the flexibility of the web self-service mode curriculum is very attractive to them because it’s something that they can do at their own time. Many of our entrepreneurs are practicing entrepreneurs. They will do the curriculum at their own time. In any case, the flexibility is
Sramana: What did you do after you sold LANSafe in 1995? Jeff Leventhal: As an entrepreneur, I have built my companies based on what I have learned in previous companies. This led me to launch a business called Remote Lojix. What I had discovered while running my previous software business is that companies were having
Sramana Mitra: I heard you speak multiple times about the Internet of Things – that you are aligning your company against that trend. What blue-sky opportunities or white spaces would you draw the attention of entrepreneurs to? Don DeLoach: Not in an effort to be overly consistent but more of just being honest, I do
Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that once they get their feet wet in the online program, they prefer the convenience and the flexibility of the online class? Kurt Kirstein: They do. I think they perceive the value of it. Many of the students who come to us went to school. The last time they went to
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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Jeff Leventhal has built four businesses in the domain of ‘work’ and has created a blue-print of managing distributed workforces on behalf of companies. All four businesses have monetized well for this serial entrepreneur who really has the magic touch! Sramana: Jeff, let’s start with a
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your company. Is it a bootstrapped company or venture-funded? Very quickly, what is the history of the company? Don DeLoach: We are privately-held and are venture-funded. As you would expect with venture-funded companies, there are limitations to what we will disclose but I can give you rough numbers.
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