Since startup ideas take entrepreneurs down many different paths on the way to becoming profitable businesses, here are the stories of a wide variety of founders and CEOs on how their startup ideas were built into successful companies, in 30-minute podcast interviews. Rob Hull, Adaptive Insights – This Founder shares in-depth insights on how he
Sramana Mitra: You had a bunch of paying customers before building the product. How much were they paying for the annual upfront payment? How did you find these companies? Mikko Honkanen: We used our own product. To find the first unaffiliated customer, you need to do sales and marketing. So, we focused on all the
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Sramana Mitra: Can you parse that out? What are the tasks that machines do better and what are the tasks that humans do better in that context? Josh Sullivan: They were having people look over their existing loyalty club members and trying to figure out how to upsell or get them to use their points
Sramana Mitra: I would like to zero in on exactly that. I’ll give you some context. My second company was a lead generation and web research company, exactly solving the same problem, except that it was very early and the web didn’t have anywhere near the level of data that it has today. I’m talking
Josh and Angela have written a book called The Mathematical Corporation, based on their exposure to various customer use cases of Machine Intelligence at Booz Allen. They discuss a few here. Sramana Mitra: You can decide who goes first. Please introduce yourselves as well as frame this conversation in the context of Booz Allen as
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Mikko has steadily built an excellent SaaS company from Finland and is now expanding into the US as well. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in
This feature from TechCrunch analyzes the global venture capital ecosystem including the dollar and deal volumes, round sizes and exits. According to the report, the global venture capital landscape is on a firmer footing. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.