Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 4)

David Braun: Then the new threat to the business came into the scene. A lot of web designers started to fear that TemplateMonster will kill the custom web design market. They were saying, “You don’t have to use the template because it’s a bad practice. You’d better order the custom design service.” This was how

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Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I wanted to ask you about location and where you’re building your team. Where is the bulk of the organisation? Dave Copps: We’re in Dallas, Texas. Sramana Mitra: Everything is in Dallas, Texas? Dave Copps: We do have satellite offices. We have people in San Francisco, DC, New York, and London. Sramana Mitra:

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did these people find you? David Braun: Basically, because of the forums. I was very active. Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome. David Braun: But you know what, out of this $70,000, $60,000 were fraud and our account was frozen because it was all from stolen credit card numbers. We had to shut down the processing.

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Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you now? Dave Copps: We are growing rapidly. In 2015, we grew 300%. I think it was our breakout year. We are already seeing that growth continue into this quarter. Sramana Mitra: What kind of range are we talking? Is this now a $10 million company or a $20 million company?

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: All right. I’m going to switch to my last question. Based on the trends you see on online learning, where do you see opportunities for entrepreneurs to start new companies? Bharat Anand: Let me step back a bit. Technology is allowing us to create all sorts of new and interesting offerings. I wanted

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10 Women Leaders Running Bootstrapped Companies

As I was writing the previous post, 10 Women Leaders Of VC-Funded Companies, I noticed that six out of the 10 companies I included on the list followed aBootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy. My point of view is that as long as you follow this strategy, your chances of raising money is always going

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You were still in Ukraine? This is happening while you were still in Ukraine? David Braun: Yes, I was in Ukraine. I had shares in that, so I was a co-founder. He was finding the prospects while my job was to organise the production. During this seven months of completing the project, we recruited

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I don’t buy that this is going to scale necessarily. Bharat Anand: Yes, go ahead. Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying, it works to a point. I don’t think it’s going to, necessarily, scale to millions of numbers – the kind of numbers with which edX is working with right now. I don’t think

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