Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was K-12 also consulting services and implementing identity management solutions kind of projects? James Litton: Yes. Keep in mind that as we were doing this, we were doing projects for all types of organizations. It’s just that the majority of them was K-12. Sramana Mitra: The business, however, were these projects? You were

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The fact that you decided to go in this direction, does this have anything to do with your background in facilities management? James Litton: No. The decision to go down this path was multi-faceted. I had known Troy since the Coca Cola days. We had stayed connected. Troy had really grown up around

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You quit this job in 1990 and did something else? James Litton: I then went to work for Continental Airlines where I moved into a Systems Analyst role. This gave me experience with a very large enterprise organisation. I was in their credit management group and helped them manage their IT infrastructure. I

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Bootstrapping an IoT Company from North Carolina: Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This is very risky business though – trying to act venture capitalist in startups and building their products against sweat equity. That’s, business-wise, quite a risky move. Bob Witter: It’s a lot of fun. We have never had any investment dollars, so the risk is our own. We’ve taken a different approach than,

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  James has built an identity management software company from Houston and now wants to go upmarket. 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 circumstances? James Litton: I am

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Bootstrapping an IoT Company from North Carolina: Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What does it mean when you say they distribute? Do they distribute your component or do they distribute the fully-integrated solution of these gas cylinders that have self-monitoring and  self-updating capacity? Bob Witter: When we started, we were only a device provider. We helped them find the resources to build out the solution

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