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Building a Mobile Security Company in Silicon Valley: Domingo Guerra, Co-Founder and President of Appthority (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to us a little bit about your fundraising process? What proof points did you go to raise money with and whom did you raise money from? What was the rational for raising money and what were the circumstances in which you raised money? Domingo Guerra: We were pretty naive about fundraising. We
Building a Mobile Security Company in Silicon Valley: Domingo Guerra, Co-Founder and President of Appthority (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who was the first customer that adopted your solution? Domingo Guerra: We had a lot of initial beta customers. Automotive companies were doing manual testing of apps, and we were helping them automate that. The first paying customer was one of the largest ad networks. When you play a game, for example, you
Building a Mobile Security Company in Silicon Valley: Domingo Guerra, Co-Founder and President of Appthority (Part 2)
Domingo Guerra: During my MBA, I decided to focus on entrepreneurship. Santa Clara has a very flexible program and you get to pick a lot of the classes and core competencies that you want to focus on. I decided to shadow a lot of the professors there that had entrepreneurship experience. In the last semester of the program,
Building a Mobile Security Company in Silicon Valley: Domingo Guerra, Co-Founder and President of Appthority (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Domingo came into the market at a time when his original value proposition to enterprises wasn’t that urgent. Over time, however, the mobile security challenge has grown into a critical issue, and now the company is thriving. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of
