Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I know quite a bit about that kind of work because I did a lead generation software company earlier in my career that required lots of scraping and cleaning. It’s quite complicated and it’s very domain-specific. I am very aware of how very complicated this is. Did you launch this with any financing

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the next move? Shane Evans: Let me give a background about what happened at Mydeco so the next move will make a lot more sense. As part of the platform we were trying to build, there was a big e-commerce part. Part of that e-commerce component was we needed some data from

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the story? Shane Evans: I was quite enjoying my time there. It turned into more of a big company. Once again, I found myself yearning for something that was a little bit different. I think it was late 2004 when I quit. During my time there, I had focused on

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Shane has built a 140-people virtual team-based business from Ireland. Very interesting view into a different part of the world. 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 background?

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like at this point, you have decided on the positioning and the target market. You started generating revenue. You hit the million dollar mark. What’s the next major inflection point? Mikko Valimaki: One important point in the early days was, we were also talking with venture capital. When we got the

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You basically were putting embedded code on the devices for filesystem management. Mikko Valimaki: Yes. Looking back, I think we made the right choice. We were able to grow really fast in the selected Asian market. When we were in the open source stage, I would say that from the early revenue, it

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June 9 – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 308th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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

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307th Roundtable Recording On May 19, 2016: With Anand Daniel, Accel Partners

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 307th Roundtable Recording On May 19, 2016: With Anand Daniel, Accel Partners