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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping an Enterprise Software Business for 30 Years
Dean Guida, CEO and Founder at Infragistics, has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values and shared his story with me in 2021. Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a New Age AI Services Venture
CEO Anji Maram has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category. Sramana Mitra: All right, Anji, let’s start at the very beginning
8 Validated Enterprise Software Startup Ideas for the DataStax-1Mby1M Challenge
The DataStax-1Mby1M Fall 2021 Startup Challenge launched on September 9th. Here is the kick-off video with Chet Kapoor, CEO of DataStax, Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer of DataStax discussing the program with me. DataStax has significant enterprise customers that are using their Apache Cassandra-based database products to solve real world problems. They are putting these
Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 7)
Sramana: In the United States we are used to seeing VCs build a company in a 5 to 7 year window. You have had VCs for substantially longer than that timeframe. How do European VCs look at the time windows? Paulo Rosado: We have so many strong relationships with gross equity VCs that at this
Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 6)
Sramana: When you tried to sell the platform, what were the top use cases against which you were closing deals? Paulo Rosado: Portals, dashboards, and mobile apps. Those were our primary use cases. We found that those had to be integrated together and 60% of them had to have mobile interfaces. Sramana: Is there a
Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 5)
Sramana: When did you start to compete for deals in the United States? Paulo Rosado: I think we started our efforts in late 2007. Sramana: How much European business were you doing by then? Paulo Rosado: We were doing quite a bit of European business. We had less than $10 million in revenue when we
Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 4)
Sramana: It sounds like you were showing substantial revenue by the time you finished your product and got your second round of financing. Paulo Rosado: I did not take another round of financing until we were at the breakeven point. The original intention was to go to the market at the end of 2002 and
Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 3)
Sramana: I know you had experience developing software and you knew the change process. You had a basic understanding of the problem domain. As you were building the company, did you bring together a set of customers to work with as you were developing the product? Paulo Rosado: Fortunately we did, yes. Sramana: What was
