Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How does your work play in to the work of the SaaS providers like Aria? They are managing the online SaaS billing. Christian Blume: They’re managing a broader spectrum in a much stronger niche market. What do I mean by that? They go into any type of service that could be a subscription,

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Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Was it a very profitable situation right from the beginning? Christian Blume: This is the interesting part. When we started the business, we always said, “We’re only going to enter actual business opportunities if there’s a win-win situation.” I would never have signed off on any kind of deal in order to buy market

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Thursday, April 23 – 256th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 256th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 23, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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255th Roundtable Recording On April 16, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Fred Luddy, Founder of ServiceNow

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

Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The natural question that comes to my mind based on what you just said is, how do you price? Christian Blume: Our business model is, we take a share of the transaction. If somebody wants to work with us, they only pay for actual performance. There are no upfront setup fees. Nobody has to

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Roundtable Recap: April 16 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Fred Luddy, Founder of ServiceNow

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Fred Luddy, Founder and Chief Product Officer of ServiceNow, one of the most successful companies in the history of enterprise software. The company, founded in 2003, is valued at over $12 billion in the public market today. It was a truly

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Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. How much of this were you able to cobble together as you launched the product? Christian Blume: We launched our first beta on November 11, 2005. We worked together with a company that had a variety of different software solutions ranging from utility down to antivirus products. We were good friends with

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255th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 255th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, April 16, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.