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Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about ROI. Supposing I am Daily Mail and I have a huge inventory. I have 100 million readers. What is your proposal to me? What can you do to my site? In terms of monetization, how much can you deliver? If I gave you access to my full inventory, what
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The thing that I keep saying in our business is that hyper growth is not a natural state. Steady growth is much more achievable than hyper growth. If you set yourself up for a situation with venture capital financing, where you have to, your definition of success is hyper growth. You’re setting yourself
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What happens in 2015? David Kashak: In 2014, I started to look for more interns. I was able to get a few more interns. I really liked one of them, who became my first full-time employee. The product that we were building was a native advertising product. We built that with publishers in
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let me summarize what I heard and you tell me if I got this right in terms of the key strategies that worked for you. You went after smaller publishers and accumulated a good amount of mobile inventory that was a collection of small sites. You went after advertisers who wanted to run
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What form factor would that be in? If you could provide something, you must have had a hypothesis of what that must look like? David Kashak: Basically, I thought about developing a platform for them. Using that platform, they can easily create native units for their mobile sites. It’s going to be something
Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Extraordinarily tight, disciplined strategy and execution has enabled David to build a tremendously fast growth company with a small team. A lot to learn! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in
Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What was the inflection point? I remember there was a channel-based inflection point that you were able to hit upon as well, right? Dan Stewart: It was the introduction of the custom-writing services that caused the spike in our revenues. Instead of providing a single message that they can send once per month,
Bootstrapping to Inflection: Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Talk a bit about the ramp in customers. What was the first year and how did it grow from there? Dan Stewart: In the first year, we ended up with tens of clients from the real estate coach who was talking about our service. Somehow, a very prominent real estate agent up in