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Bootstrapping to $55 Million from Rural Minnesota: Tom Fallenstein, CEO of Fun.com (Part 1)
Tom has built a kick-ass e-commerce company out of rural Minnesota that he hopes to build up into a billion dollar business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, in what kind of environment? Tom Fallenstein: I was born in Minnesota in a small
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Making Mass Customization Work: Jodie Fox, CEO of Shoes of Prey (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: On your website, I cannot get the shape of the boots. I don’t have the flexibility to be able to change the shape of the boots. You have a certain structure to the boots that you’re offering. You offered customization on the heels, leather, and colors but in terms of the shape of
Raising Money From 75 Angels: Manmeet Singh, CEO of Dataguise (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Are you selling direct? Are you selling through the channel? How are you going to market? Manmeet Singh: Since 2013, we have had a direct sale strategy. We have Compuware as a reseller. Our product is available to be downloaded from Hortonworks on Hadoop, which recently went public. People can download and play
Catching Up On Readings: Oscars 2015
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Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What apps are getting you in the door at the enterprises? Beerud Sheth: I think sales usually is the biggest because these are decentralized teams. Real-time information has a huge impact on sales performance. If they are behind target, they can react to it in real-time. Sramana Mitra; Who’s buying in the sales
Making Mass Customization Work: Jodie Fox, CEO of Shoes of Prey (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: The seed round was mid-2012. Then two years later, you raised what you’re now calling Series A – the $5.5 million. Jodie Fox: Yes, we did do bridge rounds in between. In November 2013, we raised $1.75 million. Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in your story that is worth highlighting in the
Raising Money From 75 Angels: Manmeet Singh, CEO of Dataguise (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: In 2012, you had around $1.5 million in revenue and you had a bunch of customers. In 2013, Samsung expressed interest in both becoming a customer and an investor. That’s when you started seeing the traction from the VCs? Manmeet Singh: Yes. Toba Capital moved faster than anybody else. My old angels have
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: These are large enterprise deals essentially. Beerud Sheth: Yes and no. They are large enterprises but selling to them is quite easy because we designed the product to be very simple. The app is a freemium product available in the app store and in the cloud. You just download and can get started in
