Eventbrite Struggling Under Public Gaze

Last year, San Francisco-based, Eventbrite, finally listed on the NYSE. The company had been trying to stay independent for a while. But being under public scrutiny hasn’t been very helpful. Investors haven’t been happy with its continuing losses and the stock price has tumbled. Nearly nine months after listing, the stock continues to languish below

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Taking a Capital Efficient Company Public and Beyond: Medidata CEO Tarek Sherif (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The first customers that you were getting traction with, how much were they paying you? Tarek Sherif: We tried a couple of different charging models. At first, we thought about a per-patient model. Back then, people were charging per data point. We tried a couple of those and they were frustrating for us.

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Bootstrapping From a Small Town in Denmark to $12 Million: Sebastian Petersen, CEO of TrendHim (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  What a wonderful story of an ecommerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. All 60 employees work out of Horsens currently. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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eBay Experiments to Drive Expansion

After a few lackluster quarters, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) recently delivered results that surpassed all market expectations. The company continues to experiment with its sales model to drive additional revenues. While it may still not reach Amazon’s might, the market is pleased with the steps it is taking to retain interest.

Taking a Capital Efficient Company Public and Beyond: Medidata CEO Tarek Sherif (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to when you decided to get together and start this company. What was the idea? What did they want to do? It sounds like they brought the technical and domain knowledge about the CRO industry. What did they have? What was in their mind that they wanted to do? Tarek

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Taking a Capital Efficient Company Public and Beyond: Medidata CEO Tarek Sherif (Part 2)

Tarek Sherif: Working for a large corporation was a good experience in the sense that I figured out what I didn’t want to do. I came out of there determined to never be in a role where I didn’t have a large measure of control. As I used to joke about it, I ended up

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Cloud Stocks: SurveyMonkey Eyes Acquisitions for Growth

According to an IBISWorld research report, the online survey software market in the US is estimated to grow 5% this year to $1.1 billion. The growth appears to have slowed down from the 12% annual growth rate reported over the years 2014 through to 2019. But that does not appear to deter SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK),

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Who is the biggest of your partners? Josh Kamrath: D2L and Cengage are tied right now. Sramana Mitra: They have course material and you complement that with the video assessment.  Josh Kamrath: There are two different partners. There is a content partner and what you just described is exactly what it is. They

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