Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You’re talking about protecting critical assets essentially. Chuck Bloomquist: Yes, you can call it critical assets. Whether it’s IP or regulatory control data, to us, it didn’t really matter. Sramana Mitra: How did you determine what was categorized as critical assets? Chuck Bloomquist: It’s based on value to the organization. If your revenue

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Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I remember NetObjects. Steven Boye: I moved back to Silicon Valley and lived there for a few years. NetObjects went public. My wife is a professor at a university in Denmark. She wanted to continue her career in Denmark, so we moved the family back to Denmark again. Sramana Mitra: What year was

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Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happened to that company? Charles Mi: We lasted for three and a half years. It was a very interesting idea, but we didn’t really discover the business potential. We also tried to make different things at a time instead of focusing on one thing. We were doing three different products at the same

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When was this company founded? Chuck Bloomquist: In 2002. Sramana Mitra: When you started the company, what were the circumstances? Did you and your co-founder put a product together and start selling to customers? Were there customers first? Chuck Bloomquist: We really didn’t have a product. We just had a concept. We had

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Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 1)

How does a little company with most of its engineering in Denmark compete with Box and Dropbox? Read the story of Soonr. Sramana Mitra: What is the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey? Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What’s the back story of the entrepreneurship story? Steven Boye: I’m a US-Danish

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Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 1)

The Lean Startup methodology has created a frenzy to pivot. Entrepreneurs seek instant gratification, and when they don’t get it, they rush to pivot. The market is strewn with false negativities as a result, because entrepreneurs don’t have the patience to stay with a concept, develop it, and sell it. ADARA is a counter-example that

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Thursday, April 23 – 256th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 256th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 23, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 1)

Chuck has bootstrapped a security company using services all the way up to $16 million in revenue and has recently raised private equity capital to develop a platform product. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? What kind of background leads up

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