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Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You started this in 2007? Gleb Budman: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: You self-financed it with your colleagues? Gleb Budman: We did. It was definitely a long, crazy journey. Five of us committed to a year without salary. That would be the seed round. We then had two more people who joined us. We call
Thursday, Dec. 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 286th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 10, 2015, 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
Dec. 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 286th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 10, 2015, 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
December 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 286th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 10, 2015, 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 From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 7)
Robin Smith: The corporate clients are amazed. A lot of them have to be in meetings over weeks and sometimes months just to have a project completed. They can do it with us, basically, overnight. Everything is geo-tagged. All the metadata includes time and date stamps. It’s all very secure. We’ve gone through our second
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. How big is your company? How many people do you have? Robin Smith: I have over 20,000 agents in our database nationwide. We only use around 65 to 6,800 of those on an ongoing basis, but we do have quite a few people interested in working for us. In my corporate
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is the business model? Robin Smith: We’re basically a mobile technology platform that provides data point retrieval for individuals and enterprise clients. We deliver that data however they need us to. Sramana Mitra: How do you get paid? Robin Smith: Our customer places an order and pays via credit card. Our enterprise
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How did these people find out about your service – that they could join as lookers? Robin Smith: There are national property inspection companies and it wasn’t too far out of the realm of getting that same group of people. I didn’t want to launch with WeGoLook until I had the platform ready