Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It was a software-driven diagnostic tool. You were running a piece of software from the internet onto that machine. Rob Cheng: Yes. It was using a technology by Microsoft called ActiveX. It was quite similar to cloud computing. We stored all the results there. We were able to track which type of computers

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at your 2018 deal flow, how many deals have you looked at? What are the nuggets you’re seeing that speak somehow to your investment thesis? What are you seeing out there? Matt Holleran: We make about three or four investments per year and the reason for that is we do

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 2)

Rob Cheng: I got to know Ted very well throughout that period of time. Ultimately, I introduced him to my friend in Colombia. They started to do business together. Another thing that happened that was very interesting was that Texas Instruments decided to go and stop the production of the PC. I’ve become friends with

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Colors: Rice Terraces, Reflections

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about a few of your portfolio companies. What have you invested in that you feel really good about? What did you see in these companies that really captured your attention? You gave us one example to begin with. So give us a little bit more color on these companies that you

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Rob figured out the joys of virtual companies back in 1999. Today, he runs a 65-person virtual company that makes $20 million in revenue. Wonderful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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