Sramana Mitra: It’s like a debt that is paid back as part of revenue share with some multiple of the funding amount. Christian Czernich: Yes. Then the financing ends once the cap is reached. If there is an exit before that, that’s good. Then we normally exit the business as well. If there is no
Sramana Mitra: Talk about the specifics of that business in terms of metrics. How many transactions were you doing? Paul Johnson: This is a long time ago. I’ll see if I can remember. We started off with a $1,000 or $2,000 order. Guitars are a high-ticket item. We would sell them for $200 to $1,000
Raoul Maier is Founder and Managing Partner at Eudemian Ventures, a fund focused on post-seed investment in North America.
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Christian Czernich was recorded in May 2020. Christian Czernich is Founder and CEO at Round2 Capital Partners, a firm that is experimenting with an alternative financing model.
Paul started as an eBay seller and then developed software to help other sellers sell online. A classic case study of an entrepreneur solving problems he faced himself and building a business based on deep domain knowledge.
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Sramana Mitra: How much did you do in 2018 in product revenue? Suuchi Ramesh: It was about 10% to 15% of our revenue at that point. We only started commercializing towards the end of the year. Sramana Mitra: How did that split change in 2019?
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about where are the open problems that you are not working on but there could be other entrepreneurs with unique expertise who can solve the problems you are seeing. You probably have a hundred ideas that come to you. You have chosen to work on Pensando, but there are