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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $10M
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2015, CEO Carl Mazzanti has bootstrapped eMazzanti Technologies using services to close to $10 million, maintaining a 20% year-over-year growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping eMazzanti Technologies Using Services
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2015, CEO Carl Mazzanti has bootstrapped eMazzanti using services to close to $10 million, maintaining a 20% year-over-year growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What scale are you at now? Carl Mazzanti: We’ve been in the middle of the pack of the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies for the last five years. We hit $7 million in 2014 and we’re on track for revenue between $9 and $10 million this year. If we continue this for the next 15 years
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: In terms of your current business, what percentage of that is selling your own product versus selling other people’s products? Carl Mazzanti: 60% to 70% is our own. Sramana Mitra: But Infrastructure-as-a-Service, right? Carl Mazzanti: Let me answer your first question. Your first question is what percentage of it is selling your own
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you were building more like a toolkit as opposed to a full blown architected product? You have a toolkit that you apply wherever similar problems crop up again. Does that describe the scenario better? Carl Mazzanti: If you look at where we are 15 years from now, the primary
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Then what’s the next milestone after moving to that Microsoft strategy or becoming a more general plumbing support beyond security? Carl Mazzanti: Shared services. Our first level shared services was email filtering. Instead of selling someone a hardware appliance, we moved that to what everyone now calls the cloud. Back then, it was
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was it about WatchGuard that made you choose them at that point? Carl Mazzanti: WatchGuard had been around for 11 years at that point. Sramana Mitra: They were already quite a while into the market? Carl Mazzanti: They were established, yes. Sramana Mitra: That’s why you chose them. You thought you could
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 1)
Carl has bootstrapped eMazzanti using services to close to $10M, maintaining a 20% y-o-y growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background? Carl Mazzanti: I was born in Pennsylvania. I come from a military family.
