Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 3)

Rohyt Belani: Just to lay it out, Farm Stone was acquired by McAfee. I worked there. Then I worked at Mandiant, which was acquired by FireEye. The group I had founded with Aaron was also acquired in 2012. Along that journey at Intrepidus, we had already come up with the product idea for founding PhishMe.

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Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 2)

Rohyt Belani: Here I am on a student visa with eight weeks to go till graduation, and I was starting to scramble for a job. Then, I just ran into a job. I ran into a gentleman, literally, in the hallways of Carnegie-Mellon. I was introduced via email to him. He was an Adjunct Professor. He

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October 15 – 280th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 280th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 15, 2015, 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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279th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On Oct. 8, 2015: Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics

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Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 1)

Following up on our ‘Bootstrapping Using Services‘ and ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ case studies, here’s the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Rohyt

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Roundtable Recap: October 8 – Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Greg Gianforte, Founder and CEO of RightNow Technologies. Greg took RightNow public, and later sold it to Oracle for $1.5 billion. He made an unorthodox choice of building the company mainly in Montana. Today, RightNow (now Oracle) is one of Montana’s largest employers, and Greg is

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of JotForm (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Were you seeing the same kind of conversion levels from free to premium? Aytekin Tank: I can’t actually recall the numbers right now. Sramana Mitra: This is a very big question. Whenever people are doing freemium products, it’s a question that we ask. It’s something that people are trying to understand. What are

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279th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 279th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 8, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.