Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you highlight what was different in the commercial product versus the open source product? From a product positioning point of view, why would somebody who was interested in the open source product buy this one? Mikko Valimaki: I would say there are three reasons. Some of our biggest customers were very hesitant

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HARO stands for Help A Reporter Out. In case you do not know about the service, you should. It’s a site that has gathered numerous journalists and businesses, including a large number of small businesses. Journalists place queries for sources and businesses – “experts” – respond. I use the service extensively for my stories. I

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Building a SaaS Company with Operational Discipline: Betterworks CEO Kris Duggan (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happened to Badgeville? Kris Duggan: It’s still going on. It’s growing and moving forward. Once you have a founding CEO replacement, there’s a lot of turmoil brought in by the CEO that was brought in. Now, they’re on to their third CEO. Those kind of challenges can be very disruptive to a

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were they willing to pay if you had a good website and if you had a company? Mikko Valimaki: We were able to get some of our very first money just by basically consulting and helping some of the first commercial users. For that, we improved the website a little bit. We tried

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Building a SaaS Company with Operational Discipline: Betterworks CEO Kris Duggan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do after WebEx? Did you stay until when WebEx was acquired by Cisco? Kris Duggan: I left right around that time – a little after the IPO until right after the acquisition. After that, I was invited to join a DFJ-funded company to run sales globally. It was called Social

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