Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is it about the hedge fund space in terms of work flows or virtualization? What specifically is different in that space versus other verticals? Chris Grandi: There are really two things that make the hedge fund space different. One is the level of service. Because of what hedge fund managers do and

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Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What was going to be the new company? What did you find that warrants doing another company? Chris Grandi: This is one thing that I always tell the entrepreneurs I speak to. You always hear about entrepreneurs who start a company when they’re super young and don’t have a lot of experience, and

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Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Chris Grandi: 2001. At the end of 2001, I was essentially committed to taking off six months to figure out what I was going to do about starting my next company. Despite not making money in that first entrepreneurial endeavor, I was committed to starting my own

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Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the next move after Maxim? Chris Grandi: I took a pretty divergent turn. I thought that maybe I wanted to be in Wall Street. I joined the Goldman Sachs Associate program out of Harvard Business School and joined their fixed income group. I was an associate in that group specifically focusing

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Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 1)

Chris had significant domain knowledge in the hedge fund industry. He has self-financed a successful company offering to secure virtualization services to the segment with high service levels. 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? Chris

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271st Roundtable Recording On August 6, 2015: With Tom Fallenstein, CEO of Fun.com

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Roundtable Recap: August 6 – Impacting a Rural Eco-system

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Tom Fallenstein, President and CEO of Fun.com. Tom has built a niche e-commerce company up to $55 Million in revenue with no outside funding from rural Minnesota. He discussed his organic growth strategies, and how his company has impacted a rural eco-system profoundly by creating a

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271st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 271st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 6, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.