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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
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Your company seemed to have somehow found its stride, but you left. When you left that company, what did you do next? Allan Wille: It’s a long story. I’ll put out some of the highlights. We started Klipfolio in the fall of 2001. At that time, since all I knew was the funding scenario, the
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Very typical overfunding, lack of discipline story. Allan Wille: It really is. I don’t think we’ve seen that kind of feverish pitch to the same degree. We saw IoT and Big Data, and now we’re seeing the same thing with AI. I think there’s a lot of money being thrown at some of these companies, perhaps, prematurely.
Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 1)
Often, it takes a long, long time for a company to hit its stride. Read Allan Wille’s journey of great perseverance. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Allan Wille: I was born here in Canada.
Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In the 1M/1M program, bootstrapping is a huge part of our philosophy. We know this from statistics that over 99% of the business that try to raise venture capital actually get rejected because they don’t fit into the venture capital model necessarily. We are huge supporters of the bootstrapping model. What you’re saying
Growing Organically: Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You inherited 40 customers from AstroPay. Were you doing prepaid private label cards for these 40 merchants and then you switched that to something else? What was the case for the spin off? Sebastian Kanovich: First of all, we didn’t want to have a company which was both B2B and B2C. We wanted