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Cloud-based planning software provider Anaplan (NYSE:PLAN) recently reported its third-quarter results that outpaced market expectations for the quarter. The company announced a deep integration with AWS as it works on expanding its market presence.
>>>Sramana Mitra: For the digital agency, how were you acquiring your clients?
Jonathan Foltz: No one believes me when I say this. It started off with friends and people I knew. I never marketed, ever.
Sramana Mitra: What year was this?
Jonathan Foltz: We started in 2009. 2010 and further was when things started to accelerate.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about that project – the one where we met.
Kashyap Deorah: I was always inspired by the power of the internet to democratize disaggregated markets. One of the problems I saw was that not all the market participants get the same opportunity. Internet was not mainstream at that time. The idea was to create an eBay over the phone where buyers and sellers could call a number and talk to a person who would have an assisted commerce layer.
>>>Jonathan has had to shepherd his jewelry e-commerce venture through the pandemic first. Then came the Apple iOS battle with Facebook which has rendered small merchants ineffective on the Facebook platforms.
Read how a scrappy, creative entrepreneur is managing all the curveballs thrown at him.
>>>If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.
George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services track.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?
George Anderson: I was born in Long Island. I found myself in technology by accident. My first job was through a referral from my family. My father sent me for an interview. I got a job working for an analytical laboratory in New Jersey.
The recent attack by Russia on Ukraine has heightened the interest in cyber security players. Enterprise cloud security company Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is one such player that is expected to see an increased market interest in its products. The company recently reported its second-quarter results that continued to outpace market expectations.
>>>Kashyap had early success with three of his companies, each of which had very small amounts of friends and family financing. He pretty much bootstrapped these three startups to rapid exits.
His fourth startup, HyperTrack, has been a challenging journey, but he has navigated it well, and turned around the earlier setbacks over the last five years.
Wonderful story.
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?
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