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Today’s 398th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 3, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!
Paroon has bootstrapped Passageways from Indiana and wants to help other Indiana entrepreneurs succeed. Along the way, he has pivoted from licensed software to cloud software, and made other strategic decision that helped his company become more successful. Read on to learn more on his moves. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of
Sramana Mitra: The sad thing is when you’re going for job interviews and negotiating job packages, the companies will not tell you all these details. Heidi Roizen: By the way, I now have to say the disclaimer. I am not currently representing DFJ or my partners. I just had an argument with somebody yesterday about
Adya is a SaaS data security platform that helps enterprises manage and secure their SaaS apps. It helps Google’s G Suite admins to get visibility into what data has been exposed, what third-party apps have been installed along with their degree of risk, which external users have access to internal data, and which internal users
Sramana Mitra: A follow-on question that comes to my mind is that if you are looking for most of the core R&D to be done before you come in, what is the assumption about how the prospective company funds that R&D phase? Is it coming out of university research? Is it coming out of government
Sramana Mitra: I’ll tell you exactly what happened in your case. You did a Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy. You were going out to raise Series A with $2 million in revenue. You went out to raise Series B with close to $10 million in revenue. These are funding situations where a company that
Sramana Mitra: The subtext of all these things that you’re saying is that there aren’t that many billion-dollar exits. Ultimately, the only valuation that matters is your exit valuation. If you’ve got a billion-dollar valuation in a private round and then you exit for $200 million, what is that going to do for you? Heidi