A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In what capacity did you start that company? Were you just a regular entrepreneur or were you doing this in an intrapreneurship mode? Andrew Rose: It’s a bit of both. The UK office provided the capital. I was employee one and I hired up to hundreds from that point. It is intrapreneurship, but

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 3)

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A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: We run a lot of intra-preneurship programs. Oracle’s intrapreneurship program is on 1Mby1M. We are very familiar with all that. Andrew Rose: You know it even better than most. It creates its own opportunities and its own challenges. You’re not necessarily going out and raising money, but you still have all the other

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 2)

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A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of job did you get in Richmond? Andrew Rose: That was my big break from chemical engineering. I had ended up getting a Master’s in Project Management from George Washington while I was with Shell. I started my MBA down there as well. I knew where I wanted to go. The

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