Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did you introduce alternate channels like eBay and Amazon? Katie Echeverry: I brought eBay into the mix in 2003. We were doing so well in 2006 to 2007 that I stopped, because I couldn’t manage two platforms. This was before there were a lot of connector tools that can keep

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Good, Bad and Ugly

You’ve heard me and others comment on the issue of artificially bloated up Unicorns and their questionable exit paths into the public market, or even into the arms of private suiters. In this post, I want to highlight some really good Unicorns, lest you think all Unicorns are artificially bloated. And, I will also point out

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Ryan, CTO of Mobile Labs (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the question that I want to explore, which is about open problems. You’ve already talked about the hyperscaling of mobile devices and apps in the next few years. If you were to start a company today, what kind of things would you work on? Mike Ryan: I would look at

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal (Part 3)

Ray Rothrock: We have three factors that determine a number. The number is like a Personal Credit Score. It ranges from 350 to 850. We crunch those numbers with our proprietary algorithms, and we give you a metric on the piece of the network that you’re interested in. There are three things that go into that.

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Do you remember what your revenue level was in 2007? Katie Echeverry: About $100,000. Sramana Mitra: For the year? Katie Echeverry: Maybe a little bit more. We got our first space to accommodate the Internet business, but people were coming in off the street wanting to shop. We made a little showroom. Within six months,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Ryan, CTO of Mobile Labs (Part 2)

Mike Ryan: The delivery infrastructure is almost infinitely very dated. There are 97 manufacturers of mobile devices and hundreds and thousands of combinations. You have the challenge of supporting old technologies as well as new technologies. If you need to support a mobile phone that is three or four years old, you’ve severe disparity. That’s one

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So your investment thesis today, so to speak, is the timing? Ray Rothrock: Absolutely. It’s the same product we invented 10 years ago. We have 200 customers. We’ve had sales of about $110 million in the past 10 full years. It’s picking up because of the value that we bring. Sramana Mitra: Going

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in year one and year two? What kind of numbers did you do in year one and year two? Katie Echeverry: I think I did about $3,000 in my first year, and then $6,000 the next year. Every year, I doubled. Sramana Mitra: In year three, you still have your pharmaceutical job,

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