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Sramana Mitra: What was the next product shift? Dean Guida: We started investing more in marketing, PR, and sales. We rode a whole bunch of technology waves. We went from the C and C++ market and started competing in the Visual Basic market. We then started shifting to selling Visual Basic developers. That just opened
Sanjay Vyas: One issue when we started working with Sprint has been about how to collect all this generated information to bring it into the Big Data systems. Now that we are bringing it into the systems, the question is if there is any way that we can look at certain parameters while the activity
Dean Guida: A strategic event along the way was definitely PR. PR was important to get advocacy, authenticity, and having others say that we were legitimate. That was early on. I told you the story about Wendy’s. That was big for us. Second, I was speaking at software development shows. That was another big inflection
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about a few use cases? I would like to do three use cases. Double-click down on what exactly you are doing. Sanjay Vyas: Let’s take the first use case as customer churn, which is a well-identified problem in the telecom industry. When you are a large telecom, you are trying
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We’ve seen a real trend of zero-logistics e-commerce businesses scaling phenomenally well. Read Wrist-Band.com Founder CEO Azim Makanojiya’s experience up to when we spoke in 2014. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?
Sramana Mitra: What does the internet do to your business? Let’s say we are talking about the time period from 1994 to 1996 when the Internet was happening. How does your company change? Dean Guida: It was way back when it started. So, we had to create a website, which helped us a lot. We
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. BookPal CEO Tony DiCostanzo had identified a gap in the book business and built a thriving company. Let’s learn the how, what, and why of it. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? Tony DiCostanzo: I