By Guest Author Soren Petersen Announcement of the INDEX: Award is much more than a loud rally for promoting high-impact and beautifully formed design solutions. The Index Award is backed by the largest monetary design award and guides the most promising finalists from design solution to business opportunity, with $460,000.00 currently distributed among five winners,
Sramana Mitra: You have chosen to grow it to a substantial level with profits. What do you want to do with this company? Is it something you’re looking to sell? Do you want to continue running it forever? Belisario Rosas: Continue it. We run the company like a family business. We want to be one
Sramana Mitra: You were providing the management tools on the transaction but you were also making those connections. Peter Lehrman: Yes. At the core of Axial is a search engine that looks at the data related to the company that is raising capital or is for sale. It looks at all the data that is
Sramana Mitra: I understand that you constantly test and experiment but there must have been some kind of institutional truths that were emerging in terms of your pricing and business model? Andrew Filev: One of the big things that we found is this switch to packages in the SMB digital space. We tested and we’re
By Guest Author Soren Petersen Startup hubs are popping up like mushrooms across the world, each with its own culture, competitive advantages and opportunities for creating unique businesses. What might these hubs learn from each other to dial up their performance? To answer this question we spoke with professionals in Copenhagen, Seoul and Los Angeles,
Sramana Mitra: Did you have that tendency of trying to do it all before this change happened? Belisario Rosas: Very much. I was buying. I was selling. I was doing everything. Sramana Mitra: You were running a substantial revenue company but you did not have any executive team? Belisario Rosas: That is correct. Sramana Mitra:
Sramana Mitra: What kind of traction did you see? With that industrial manufacturing concentration, what kind of traction did you see in the beginning? Peter Lehrman: Very quickly, we had customers willing to pay us a couple of hundred dollars a month on the demand side. The private equity community was ready to pay –
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 287th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 17, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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