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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Bootstrapped Entrepreneur’s Journey
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Going against the grain of Venture Capital mania, in 1999, Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik started his second bootstrapped venture. When we spoke in 2017, 18 years later, he was still running it. In 2021, Beyond Security was acquired by HelpSystems. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at
Best of Bootstrapping: A Serial Bootstrapping Entrepreneur’s Journey
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Going against the grain of Venture Capital mania, in 1999, Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik started his second bootstrapped venture. When we spoke in 2017, 18 years later, he was still running it. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How long did you do this company for? What kind of metrics did you reach during that period? Aviram Jenik: We started in 1999 and we still do this today. Sramana Mitra: This is Beyond Security? Aviram Jenik: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Got it. Then let’s talk about the inflection points. From 1999 to
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You were open to all the vulnerabilities. Aviram Jenik: Correct. That gave us the opportunity to do this security check for you. If your severs are out there in the Internet, we can also tell you if you’ve got all these problems. We started offering that as a remote. What’s funny about this
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 4)
Aviram Jenik: As time passed, there were little engines on the customer side. Java became popular and started replacing what we were doing. The Internet became faster and faster. We shifted towards remote support for something like a printer driver stopping to work. Anybody who had a computer in the second half of the 90s
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You knew that you needed to move out. You didn’t know where to move out to. Aviram Jenik: Exactly. It’s not that we had a brilliant idea at that time. We just thought, “Education is nice, but it’s not big enough. This new market that’s coming is huge.” Our engine was like a
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The reason why professors want to see how you are proceeding is because they can’t partially mark you. If you’re going in the right direction and somehow made a mistake and got the wrong answer, they can still give you partial points for how you were moving. That’s, I think, the thinking behind
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 1)
Going against the grain of Venture Capital mania, in 1999, Aviram started his second bootstrapped venture. 18 years later, he is still running it. Happily! 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? Aviram Jenik: I was
