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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was the journey like in 2001 to 2007? It was slow as you are pointing out, but were you still getting customers? What was the sustaining strategy during that period? Philippe d’Offay: At that time in healthcare, the consolidation hadn’t quite begun. There was this very strong entrepreneurial spirit in healthcare. We were
Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You know that we believe in the Bootstrapping Using Services methodology quite firmly. Here’s yet another story of how and why it works. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Wowza CEO David Stubenvoll (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Ups and downs, successes and failures, experiments and pivots – the stuff that make up a serial entrepreneur’s journey. 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? David
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: There a lot of people trying to do the solution that you’re describing – this central electronic health record of a patient. Can you help me understand when you started this company, what was the competitive landscape like, and how has that competitive landscape evolved over the years as you have been in this business?
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happens in 1998? Philippe d’Offay: You have to go back a little bit because the two questions overlap with one another. There’s a lot of news lately about medical errors. According to a Johns Hopkins, more than a quarter million patients die due to medical errors a year. In 1991, my grandfather
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Philippe has turned ~$300k of friends and family investment into a $6.5 million ARR business. Read on to learn how. 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?
Bootstrap First to Exit, Bootstrap Again, Then Raise VC Money ALL from St. Louis: Stephanie Leffler, CEO of OneSpace (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: As I’m listening to you, I’m thinking that last year, you did over $10 million with 50 customers. I can see that business model going to $40 million to $50 million in the next three years. You’ve told me that you’re switching business models, and your focus is going to be on the
Bootstrap First to Exit, Bootstrap Again, Then Raise VC Money ALL from St. Louis: Stephanie Leffler, CEO of OneSpace (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It’s, effectively, becoming a competitor to Mechanical Turk and UpWork. Stephanie Leffler: Absolutely. UpWork also happens to be our partner. We’re fully integrated with UpWork and have an API integration. If you’re hiring freelancers there and you want to scale your project, people will often use OneSpace. UpWork provides people but they don’t provide