Bootstrapping Using Services: InRule COO Rik Chomko (Part 5)

Sramana: What was the number of customers? What were the major milestones in 2004? What were you able to accomplish? Rik Chomko: We had about 10 customers in 2004 and then probably another 15 in 2005, so we were starting to really get some momentum. We also started getting some bigger blue chip customers and a lot more attention from overseas. This was

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take maybe three customers from three different segments. Let’s double-click down on understanding how they’re using your technology. Ulf Mattsson: I would like to mention that we do provide services in the architecture and data flow, which is very important to be able to find the right solution in. Let’s take a

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Building a Global Software Company From Australia: Bigcommerce Co-Founder Mitch Harper (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What was your revenue level in 2010? The 9,800 customers translated into what kind of revenue level? Mitch Harper: Our average per user back then was about $40 per month. It was somewhere around $5 million to $10 million at that time. Sramana Mitra: What were the milestones that you set for yourself

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8 Companies Inducted Into the iSPIRT BootUpINDIA Inner Circle

iSPIRT has announced the eight bootstrapped Indian companies that have been inducted into the BootUpIndia Inner Circle. As one of the jurors, Sramana Mitra would like to offer her encouragement and support to all of the participants and congratulate the winners: Sumeet Kapur/Global Groupware Solutions, Anand Krushnan/Exclusife, Sunil Patro/SignEasy, Indrajit Chowdhury/PowerStores Ecommerce, Ankit Jain/VoiceTree Technologies,

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Bootstrapping Using Services: InRule COO Rik Chomko (Part 4)

Sramana: That year in 2003, how many customers were you able to bring on? I assume you were targeting the insurance industry and all the customers who are from the insurance industry. Rik Chomko: Yes. Interestingly enough, while we were targeting people from the insurance industry, the customers we actually landed were completely outside of the insurance

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 1)

Big Data platforms like Hortonworks and Cloudera use a third party player to address security issues. Protegrity offers one of those key building blocks of a secure Big Data platform. This interview delves into the security issues that customers are grappling with. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as

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Building a Global Software Company From Australia: Bigcommerce Co-Founder Mitch Harper (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do your merchants have $100,000 in revenue or are they $2 million in revenue? Is there any kind of cut-off there? Mitch Harper: Our customers’ revenue typically ranges from $1 million to $30 million of revenue per year. Sramana Mitra: Your customer base is more in the $1 million to $30 million range. Then, the

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