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Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 3)
Christian Blume: What it allowed us to do was put different checkout processes. We didn’t care whether this was checkout processes built on our engine or something that we would compare against—somebody that was running on an in-house solution or an outsourced solution. We really compare how the conversion rates really evolve with the implementation
Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Now that we’ve gone through the background analysis, position the product for me. Which customers are you going after? Specifically, what was the value proposition that you were going to deliver? Christian Blume: We didn’t want to deliver a me-too product because there had been so many go’s at this already over the
Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 1)
We’re always impressed by entrepreneurs who manage to build sizeable companies without outside capital. Read how Cleverbridge has maneuvered to $40 million in revenue and doesn’t want to deal with venture capital and private equity. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?
Bootstrapping Using Services From Atlanta: PMG Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles (Part 6)
Joe LeCompte: We have always been self-funded. It’s been a strategic decision because we feel that we didn’t need any funding. Also, we feel that if we did potentially accelerate growth, it would take our eye off the ball. It would take our focus from providing value to our customers to a different cycle. We were now
April 16 – 255th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 255th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 16, 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
254th Roundtable Recording On April 9, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of SnapLogic
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
Roundtable Recap: April 9 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic
During today’s roundtable we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Gaurav Dhillon, Founder, Chairman and CEO, SnapLogic, and also founder of Informatica. Gaurav discussed his process of sniffing out high potential market opportunities in large horizontal enterprise software categories. Both Informatica and SnapLogic are Unicorns, and it is rare to have
Bootstrapping Using Services: Evariant CEO Bill Moschella (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you went to raise from this Manhattan firm with healthcare industry folks out there, what stage were you in? Did you already have a product? Did you have customers? Bill Moschella: We actually did. By the time the raise goes down at the end of 2011, we had a decent customer base.
