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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Suchit Bachalli, CEO of Unilog (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The other interesting slice of the market view that you’ve provided is this whole world of people who are not doing e-commerce. They’re slow adopters that you’re now bringing fresh onto the Internet. That’s a very interesting world. Given that you’re operating in a territory that is a lot more behind than where
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Suchit Bachalli, CEO of Unilog (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: As your primary playing ground, right? Suchit Bachalli: Right. One of our earlier adopters Mayer Electric are based out of Birmingham, Alabama. I think they’re $800 million in revenue. They just had a regular website. There was no commerce and no way to buy anything online. Today, they have the full commerce solution.
Building a Global Technology Company from Australia: Avoka CEO Phil Copeland (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Let me get a bit more granular in some of these steps. When you started getting the sense that there was this product opportunity while you were essentially acting as a reseller and system integrator on top of what became the Adobe technology, what was your business situation? You were a self-financed company.
Building a Global Technology Company from Australia: Avoka CEO Phil Copeland (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do after that? Phil Copeland: There were a lot of lessons learned out of that. First of all, the original business was self-funded and was grown out of cash flow. Spot On was my first venture capital-based business, and it was also started in San Francisco. That was a really interesting experience. After
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 7)
Sramana: How have you structured your technology to support these various use cases? Krishna Kumar: Our app building platform lets you build apps quickly for these various conditions. We use an agent-based model. That is a cool way of predicting human response conditions. We are mimicking the human intelligence response to different conditions and using
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 6)
Sramana: So your ultimate strategy is to go to market through third party consultants? Krishna Kumar: We want to empower consulting companies to run with projects based in our technology. They are not going to buy into our strategy if two things don’t happen. First, we need to have similar customers in the market that
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 5)
Sramana: Do you have any proof points of your technology working and providing actionable recommendations? Krishna Kumar: We are very new and we have just started the pilot project for that use case. It is not a tried and tested method from the business method standpoint. We will be working with more established ERP vendors
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 4)
Sramana: So how have you been able to build a product by combining the Internet of Things, People and Processes? Krishna Kumar: We have an intelligence layer that sits on top of all of these three components and allows you to build applications on top of that. For example, we are working with an organic