A Textbook Case Study of Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bhavin Parikh, CEO of Magoosh (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: When this happened, who else was in the company? Bhavin Parikh: When we raised in May of 2011, we made that blogger into a full-time employee. He was doing content marketing for us full-time. He was also helping us create content for our product. Then, we hired a software engineer who had interned with

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Bootstrapping from Belgium: iText CEO Bruno Lowagie (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Belarus is not your own division? Bruno Lowagie: No, it’s not our own company. It’s a company with a subsidiary in Belgium. We pay the Belgian company but the people who work on iText are in Belarus. Sramana Mitra: How has revenue ramped? Bruno Lowagie: I believe that in 2011, we finished with $2.4

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From Y Combinator to Customer Traction and $50 Million in Financing: MemSQL CEO Eric Frenkiel (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: When you raised the $35 million, how many customers did you have? Eric Frenkiel: I don’t recall the exact numbers, but it was around a dozen customers at that point. Sramana Mitra: Were these large companies? What kind of customers are we talking? Eric Frenkiel: They were all logos that anyone would recognize. One of the

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A Textbook Case Study of Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bhavin Parikh, CEO of Magoosh (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. That started converting as well. This was not only traffic but it was the right traffic. Bhavin Parikh: Yes. The thing is you don’t see the conversion immediately because people need to build that relationship with you. They come to your site. They read a post and start to think, “They really know

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257th Roundtable Recording On April 30, 2015: With Therese Tucker, BlackLine

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Roundtable Recap: April 30 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Therese Tucker, CEO of BlackLine

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Therese Tucker, Founder and CEO of BlackLine. Therese is a very successful female entrepreneur who followed our core philosophy of bootstrap first, raise money later. When I first met her in 2009, her company was in the $10 million revenue range.

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Bootstrapping from Belgium: iText CEO Bruno Lowagie (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Were you still in Gent? Bruno Lowagie: I was still in Gent and we’re still in Gent. In 2009, the list was finished and we didn’t find any new customers. We then made a bold move. We changed the old version of iText from the LGPL/MGPL to the AGPL. That’s a more viral license.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hortonworks Needs To Deliver Results

A Markets and Markets report on Hadoop estimates the total Hadoop market to grow 55% annually to be worth $13.95 billion by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Hortonworks is one successful player in this rapidly growing Hadoop market.