During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder of GoodData. Roman is a serial entrepreneur, and discussed his thoughts about customer validation, go-to-market strategies, and the future of big data / business intelligence technologies in great depth. Envelop As for the pitches, first up,
Sramana Mitra: What kind of customer validation did you do at that point? Steven Boye: I would say we didn’t really do any customer validation that early on. But we had a lot of background in office applications and helping people with Word and Excel. It was basically office automation or mobile enablement of people with
Sramana Mitra: Hilton was paying US Airways every time they were accessing a data set and you were getting a share of that revenue. Was that your business model? Charles Mi: We get paid and share it with US Airways. Just like a consumer who’s purchasing from Amazon, you have to pay Amazon. Amazon then gives
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Sramana Mitra: In that process, was there any other kind of segmentation? Were there any particular styles of CIOs or IT organizations that were resonating with you? Maybe a vertical or any kind and size of business? Chuck Bloomquist: Absolutely. There were certain verticals that were more responsive than others. The first one that we
Sramana Mitra: Even though it was registered in Delaware, you were running the company in Denmark? Steven Boye: You can say that the company’s engineering department was running out of Denmark. It’s actually the same today with Soonr. All engineering operations are done here in Denmark. All the financial, PR, HR, and business development operations are
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to 2008. You decided to do this vertical solution for the travel agency. Who were the first customers that you went after and who bought into your value proposition? Charles Mi: The first customer we went after was US Airways, partly due to the personal relationship that Layton has with