Sramana Mitra: You stayed for seven years at Bell Labs until 1997. What happens after that? Moshe Vaknin: After Bell Labs, I decided to move back to Israel. During that time, I got married and had two kids. I applied for a job in Israel. I was employed by a company called VOCAL Tech, which is
Sramana Mitra: What about financing? You talked about your early financing. Talk about the rest of the financing history of the company. Ben Dilts: It was in early 2011 that we raised a little over $1 million. We rolled that early friends and family money into that same round. That kept us rolling for a while.
James Green: Let’s take a company like Bluefly. They’re a large online retailer. They sell fashionable clothing. If someone visits their website, we can help them do site retargeting. We can go and say, “You exhibited this behavior in this website. Perhaps we should send you an email because that’s how you like to be
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Moshe has been doing startups for 18 years now. Some have worked, some not so well. This time around, he is building something bigger and more robust than his prior outings. Read Moshe Vaknin’s inspiring journey through startup land. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very