A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What were the financing rounds? You raised your first financing within 18 months when you were getting real traction so you did bootstrap the first phase. Jason Cohen: Right. In August of 2011, we raised our first little A round. Then a year later in the same month, we did a B round.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where are we timeline-wise now? Jason Cohen: We’re still in the mid-2000s. Just accelerating through that, I sold Smart Bear in 2007. I left in 2009. I had to stick around for a year. Sramana Mitra: To whom did you sell this company to? Jason Cohen: There was another company called Automated QA.

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Catching Up On Readings: Augmented World Expo 2016

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Being the author of a book gives you huge credibility. Jason Cohen: Even now when everyone knows you can publish, it does. We were doing enterprise sales where credibility is even more important. I remember being with a potential customer in San Diego. Our champion inside the company threw one of our books

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June 9th – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 308th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go down the path of your content marketing. You said you published a book. Tell us more about what was the marketing strategy around your code review product? Jason Cohen: I have to give credit where credit is due. In ITWatchDogs, Gerry had this idea because it had just become possible to

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you go to work for them? Jason Cohen: I did for just a little while, but at that time, I had already started another company with Gerry’s encouragement. In fact, when we started ITWatchDogs, I was hesitant to join a startup because I thought, “Maybe I should just increase my savings a little

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: It is very difficult to get any kind of financing for new companies from these community banks. I’m curious about how you managed to get that. Was Gerry offering a personal guarantee of some sort to get that money out? Jason Cohen: Yes. He also had a history with the bank. Of course, you’ll

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