Bootstrapping Using Services: Bay Dynamics Co-Founders Feris Rifai and Ryan Stolte (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did you price this new product? Feris Rifai: The original OEM agreement started out as a royalty fee. The Symantec folks were selling it directly to the client. That grew from there to cover more of the Symantec portfolio of products. It also grew to Symantec actually including it in their product

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January 14 – 289th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 289th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 14, 2016, 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

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288th Roundtable Recording On January 7, 2016

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Bay Dynamics Co-Founders Feris Rifai and Ryan Stolte (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let me see if I got this. You had a bunch of partners and you were doing value-added type of work for these people? Ferris Rifai: It was not reselling. It was more services-focused. They would use us as an extension. Sramana Mitra: In that process of doing integration and consulting, it sounds

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Roundtable Recap: January 7 – Dynamic Beginning To 2016

During this week’s roundtable, we had several businesses with actual paying customers, which is absolutely terrific! Trademark Factory First up, Andrei Mincov from Vancouver, Canada, pitched Trademark Factory, a trademark search and filing site. Andrei has 300 paying customers, and is looking to grow the business to the next level.

288th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 288th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, January 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

288th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 288th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping Using Services: Bay Dynamics Co-Founders, Feris Rifai and Ryan Stolte (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start this consulting company? Ryan Stolte: 2001. Feris Rifai: Precisely on October 16, 2001. Sramana Mitra: You did analytics consulting. How long did you continue in this consulting mode? Ferris Rifai: When we first started, we started with consulting in analytics and, in parallel, information security and IT. What we saw

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