Sramana Mitra: How many enterprise customers do you have right now? Ben Spring: Well over a hundred. We’ve been super fortunate to onboard Fortune 500 companies, lots of governments, lots of schools, and colleges. We’ve done some really rewarding work with the education of Scotland to provide training to 14 and 15-year-olds to break into
Sramana Mitra: What was happening with the business? Were the conversation rates increasing? Was the number of users increasing and how? Ben Spring: It was completely organic. We were incredibly lucky. It was just word-of-mouth. We really tried to make a great user experience and understand the user’s problem. At the time, I was constantly
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Pawel Maj, Investment Director, Warsaw Equity Group. We discussed post-seed and pre-series A funding in Eastern and Central Europe in the context of his firm’s investment thesis. Matomela Group For our entrepreneur pitches, we first had Mthetho Phakathi, from Pretoria, South Africa, pitch Matomela Group, a
Sramana Mitra: When you finished university, what point were you at? Ben Spring: I can’t remember now. It must have been 10,000 users. Sramana Mitra: All free still? Ben Spring: We introduced a pay-as-you-go model. You can pay per course. After talking to users, we found that it wasn’t the best model for us, so
Today’s 583rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 21, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
Today’s 583rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 20 minutes, on Thursday, July 21, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
Ben and his co-founder are two techies who started by bootstrapping with a paycheck. With zero marketing budget, they have scaled TryHackMe to a million users and significant revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?