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Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let me summarize what I heard and you tell me if I got this right in terms of the key strategies that worked for you. You went after smaller publishers and accumulated a good amount of mobile inventory that was a collection of small sites. You went after advertisers who wanted to run
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What form factor would that be in? If you could provide something, you must have had a hypothesis of what that must look like? David Kashak: Basically, I thought about developing a platform for them. Using that platform, they can easily create native units for their mobile sites. It’s going to be something
Thursday, December 8 – 331st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 331st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Extraordinarily tight, disciplined strategy and execution has enabled David to build a tremendously fast growth company with a small team. A lot to learn! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in
Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What was the inflection point? I remember there was a channel-based inflection point that you were able to hit upon as well, right? Dan Stewart: It was the introduction of the custom-writing services that caused the spike in our revenues. Instead of providing a single message that they can send once per month,
Bootstrapping Using Services: James Kane, CEO of RWS (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: In 2011, you had scaled significantly. Where are the revenues at this point? James Kane: I want to say they’re right around $4.5 million or so. My recollection gets a little bit fuzzy there. Sramana Mitra: What are the next strategic moves? What was the thinking behind those moves? James Kane: We entered
Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Talk a bit about the ramp in customers. What was the first year and how did it grow from there? Dan Stewart: In the first year, we ended up with tens of clients from the real estate coach who was talking about our service. Somehow, a very prominent real estate agent up in
December 8th -331st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 331st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any