Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What was the next product shift? Dean Guida: We started investing more in marketing, PR, and sales. We rode a whole bunch of technology waves. We went from the C and C++ market and started competing in the Visual Basic market. We then started shifting to selling Visual Basic developers. That just opened

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Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 6)

Dean Guida: A strategic event along the way was definitely PR. PR was important to get advocacy, authenticity, and having others say that we were legitimate. That was early on. I told you the story about Wendy’s. That was big for us. Second, I was speaking at software development shows. That was another big inflection

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Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What does the internet do to your business? Let’s say we are talking about the time period from 1994 to 1996 when the Internet was happening. How does your company change? Dean Guida: It was way back when it started. So, we had to create a website, which helped us a lot. We

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Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 4)

Dean Guida: We got out there and we were in a room with 12 people. These were the guys who wrote the compiler, debugger, linker, and then there’s me and my girlfriend. I was like, “Oh my god. Don’t hold my hand. Don’t look at me. Don’t do anything.” Chris, a guy that was there,

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Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 3)

Dean Guida: When we finally finished our first version and were going to bring it to market, everybody was reading this Charles Petzold book. It was this 600-page book. You had to learn all these APIs. We were going to market with this framework to help people build business applications faster, but no one was

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Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 2)

Dean Guida: When I graduated from school, I moved up to New York City because I wanted to work for all the smart people. There is a lot of money in New York City. I started my company when I was 23. It was 1989. All the smart people like Microsoft and these other companies

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July 15 – 538th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 538th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 15, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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537th Roundtable Recording on July 8, 2021: With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 537th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot