A deep dive into the custom e-commerce world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Gooten to our audience. Mark Kapczynski: I’m the Chief Marketing Officer here at Gooten. I’ll first say that Gooten has now entirely moved to working virtually. We used to be headquartered in New York. Now
“My journey was as unexceptional as you can imagine,” says Rukkus CEO Manick Bhan, in describing how he got to $1 million annual revenue rate in transactions before raising financing. Read on for the whole story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by going back to your very beginnings. I want to hear about where you were
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Sramana Mitra: You said that this was a fast transactional sale that was solving a big problem. Can you succinctly summarize what the problem was that you were speaking to and successfully closing deals on? Arthur Lozinski: The way that the companies were thinking about this problem was like checking a box. You work in
We continue our coverage of bootstrapping using services with Codesigned CEO Jake Weaver. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jake Weaver: I’m from a very small town in the middle of Missouri in the Midwest called
Sramana Mitra: If a team is strong, are you okay with investing before pre-product? Semyon Dukach: It takes more than a strong team. In my view, the team for this company was clearly the best in the world. There was no way that a team with more money could be stronger than this one. It
Sramana Mitra: How close is your activity portfolio within the MIT community? Semyon Dukach: We have quite a bit of stuff around MIT. I’ve been physically in Boston ever since I went to MIT 30 years ago. We have a lot of stuff with Harvard and other universities as well. I think that is one