Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you position against a Huddle? We’ve done the Huddle story for instance. SharePoint is a well-known product. Tell me how you position against each of them. The reason I ask you is because we try to give our readers a lot of exposure on positioning. If you could help us think

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In 1996, you decided that you were going to do something with technology and you were going to work in rural Canada. You were going to get these farmers online and you wanted to teach them how to use computers and so forth. Is that right? Jory Lamb: Yes. It just makes me

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 3)

Robin Wiener: We were lucky enough to do a project. I had gone out and recruited a company that wanted to do wellness. We built a wellness platform for them. Sramana Mitra: You were basically doing contract software work at this point. Out of those three desks at the incubator, you were taking projects and building

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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: £50,000 is a high-touch sale. Ajay Patel: It’s a high-touch sale. When I look at the customer lifetime value, that’s what’s actually impressive. We’ve compared sales. Who are the clients we’ve had in January 1, 2012? What do they make? What do the same clients make in January 2013? Our average cohort is 25%.

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Big Idea: Will Capital Kill Capitalism?

2014 has been awash with capital. Showering money on young startups, VCs have become giddy, entrepreneurs dizzy, and sane industry observers aghast. Right before Thanksgiving, however, Quartz published a story on the failing Fab, How Fab.com went from a $1 billion valuation to a $15 million fire sale: Flash sales site and retailer Fab’s rise

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 1)

Jory Lamb started as an entrepreneur as a 23-year old in rural Canada. Read his 18-year journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jory Lamb: I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. I was also born

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