Scaling an Analytics Services Business to $30 Million: Axtria CEO Jaswinder Chadha (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click on that a bit. You founded marketRx in which year? Jaswinder Chadha: In 2000. Sramana Mitra: You self-financed that project? Jaswinder Chadha: No. The first round of financing was friends and family. We did another round of financing from angel investors. The third round was when we brought in a group

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Roundtable Recap: July 23 – Future of K-12 Education

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our special guest, Betsy Corcoran, Founder and CEO of EdSurge, and an authority on the subject of educational technology. We learnt a lot from Betsy today. Watchful Eye Security First up, Kevin Coleman from Wilmington, Delaware, pitched Watchful Eye Security, a real-time surveillance technology company. Kevin needs to

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Scaling a Technology Company Against Major Competitors: Solix CEO Sai Gundavelli (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How long did you work for Cisco? When did you finish the Cisco gig? Sai Gundavelli: It was in 1996. I worked there from 1991 through 1996. Sramana Mitra: That was when you started your first company? Sai Gundavelli: That’s right. I started my first company in 1996. Sramana Mitra: Tell me a

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Scaling an Analytics Services Business to $30 Million: Axtria CEO Jaswinder Chadha (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Outsourced analytics services has been a popular category, especially in the US-India mode. Jaswinder has built not one, but two of these businesses. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Would it be fair to say that you were able to expand your margin substantially through this process? What kind of numbers are we talking? In the kind of strategic shift that you described, what does that do to the business in terms of margin? Jeff Mullarkey: After that, we delivered a much

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Public Access to Startup Investments

By Guest Author Soren Petersen In the United States, for the first time since 1933, you do not have to earn more then $200k annually or be a millionaire to invest in startups. As long as the startup raises less than fifty million dollars annually, anyone can now get into the game at the ground

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I understand what you’re doing. I’m going to ask you to do something for me. You have been in security for a long time. You said you’ve done four companies. Security is a domain where you can only do a startup if you really are a domain expert. When you look around at

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