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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Bootstrapping Using Services From Atlanta: PMG Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: In 2006, you had this product out. Relatively soon, you have three paying customers. What happens next? What was the next major strategic move? Joe LeCompte: The primary move was the IT focus. ITIL was really hot in 2008 to 2010. IT was looking for a way to better interact with their end
Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Services from Utah: Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com (Part 2)
Dave Elkington: I decided to quit and come back to school to get a master’s in Computer Science. The rationale was two-fold. One, I believed that coding was not that hard. It’s not as challenging as the programmers try to make it. We were paying, at that time, exuberant amounts for people who weren’t that
Bootstrapping Using Services: Evariant CEO Bill Moschella (Part 1)
Yet another case study of a services company successfully bootstrapping a product, then raising Venture Capital! Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What’s the back story of your entrepreneurial story? Bill Moschella: I was born and raised in Connecticut. I
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 2)
Joshua March: I set out to build this business with no real mentors and no experience on how to do e-commerce. I managed to get off the ground and have a small, live business. I even hired a team to build a website. Then the financial crisis happened. The whole saga lasted for about a year and
Bootstrapping in Minnesota: Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Where were you when you were doing this company? Praful Saklani: I was back in Minnesota. We were based in the Twin Cities. Our customer base was all over the country and the world. The company that bought us was actually based out of Ireland. Sramana Mitra: Before we go into the details
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Anything that starts to validate and gets clients into a product is really a key milestone. In everything that we do, that milestone makes a humongous difference. Ajay Patel: It was a turning point for us. Sramana Mitra: In what year was that? Ajay Patel: That was in 2006. Sramana Mitra: At that
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 2)
Ajay Patel: The vision was to build our own deal room or file sharing application and then license that to the legal industry. We put in our savings, which amounted to $30,000 and started HighQ. To this day, it is still a bootstrapped company. Having no money meant no salary, but it also meant that you had
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 1)
Continuing with our Bootstrapping Using Services theme, we bring you a story from London. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some back story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Ajay Patel: I was born in London about 42 years ago. I’ve lived here all my life. My origins