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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 7)
Jory Lamb: In the middle of 2007, I moved to Denver to get things off the ground in the US market. In the early years in Houston, the company was a bit of a revolving door. It was really hard to retain the staff. Again, I made another error, for which I’m smarter today. I kept hiring staff, sticking them
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In 1996, you decided that you were going to do something with technology and you were going to work in rural Canada. You were going to get these farmers online and you wanted to teach them how to use computers and so forth. Is that right? Jory Lamb: Yes. It just makes me
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 1)
Jory Lamb started as an entrepreneur as a 23-year old in rural Canada. Read his 18-year journey. 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? Jory Lamb: I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. I was also born
Building Large Scale Enterprise Software Companies: Louis Tetu, Founder of Taleo, CEO of Coveo (Part 1)
This interview gives us an opportunity to speak with a seasoned enterprise software entrepreneur who has founded and scaled a number of companies, including Taleo that went public, and was eventually acquired by Oracle for $1.9 billion. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do day to day? Danny: There’s no consistency at all. Right now we’re putting together the strategy of how we’re going to execute over the next year. So, there’s lots of consulting with the community and organizations and the board and everybody I
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: We’ve got some role models, and we’re using them as poster children. For example, Stewart Butterfield created Flickr in Vancouver. Stewart is a great example of somebody who has built a company, sold it to the States, and ended up coming back to Vancouver and starting
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You fund programs and events but you don’t directly invest in companies, right? Danny: Yes. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to do that.
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: I thought that BCIC would be a better place for me to cover all the sectors, make sure the entire [entrepreneurial] ecosystem’s intact, reach all the other industries and regions. I represent all of British Columbia, not just Vancouver. There are about nine regional areas where
