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Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There are lots of lead customers, which is really important for a startup. Hannu Verkasalo: You’re right. Let’s talk about the incident on mobile. Many of these companies including Google and Facebook want to support new innovations and new ideas. In many cases, they use you because they want to bring something new
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Eventually, where did you raise money from? Allan Wille: The Series A lead was from Canada. That was from OMERS. OMERS, of course, has a big history with Hootsuite and Shopify. They know that space very well. Our seed round had both Canadian and US investors. I don’t know if you know Maya
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How many investors did you have and how much money did you raise? Hannu Verkasalo: We raised $2 million. Sramana Mitra: From investors in Finland? Hannu Verkasalo: Yes, we had two investors from Finland and a couple of angels. I put in quite a bit of money. Knowing what I know now and
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: By the time you found your product-market fit, there were other players in the market in the visualization space like Tableau. What did you experience from a competitive challenge point of view? Allan Wille: We actually saw relatively little competition. That’s because we were going after small and midsize companies. Even today, the business
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The product idea was based on what you were doing for Nokia and what you wanted to bring for the other mobile operators, right? Hannu Verkasalu: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: This is now the post-iPhone era. Hannu Verkasalu: Yes. Now more and more companies were interested in mobile being a medium for content and
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What did you learn? What were the key levers that you learned to push or look to push at that point? Allan Wille: I think the obvious one was that our revenue was simply not growing. That was the one that was staring us in our face. We did have some successful customers, and
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 1)
Hannu has done three companies, including the one that he is doing now – Verto Analytics. We love stories of successful entrepreneurs from different parts of the world, and this one, from Finland is a wonderful one! Sramana Mitra: Tell me where you come from, where you were born, raised, and in what kind of
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. Serendipity and luck are very big drivers in entrepreneurial success. People who don’t acknowledge that are basically fooling themselves and aggrandizing themselves in undeserved ways. Allan Wille: That was an easy lesson. I’ll give you another example. The lesson there was, “we were not making any money, and here was an opportunity