Sramana: It is interesting that you used different financial strategies in each of your first three businesses. Was this maturation of you as an entrepreneur? Ash Ashutosh: In each of these cases there was a method to the madness. Your business dictates the resources you bring to the table. Your business dictates the opportunity. If
Sramana: How did the venture capitalist find you? Ash Ashutosh: I don’t know. He was out of Dallas so I am sure he heard about us somewhere. We were doing very well. The company had zero external financing. There were four co-founders who owned 100% of the company. When we got acquired we realized that
Sramana: Can you look back and talk about the process of determining what you were going to do as an entrepreneur? Ash Ashutosh: Somewhere along the way, as I was leaving college, I had an entrepreneurial streak there. I was trying to build a business in India right out of engineering school which was practically
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Ash Ashutosh is the CEO of Actifio, a company which provides advanced data storage products. He brings more than 25 years of storage industry and entrepreneurship experience to his role of CEO at Actifio. Ashutosh is a recognized leader and architect in the storage industry where
Actifio is a data management virtualization (DMV) software company that provides data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions to IT organizations for virtual and physical IT environments. Its products, which Actifio just launched a couple of weeks ago, are designed to make it easier for companies to copy, store, move, and restore data.