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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 1)
FinTech is hot these days. Jason has particular expertise in the segment, and he discusses his multiple ventures. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the beginning of your personal story. Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jason Hogg: I’m from New York originally and grew up just outside the city. My
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How do you acquire members for your community? What is the marketing strategy? How do people find out about you? Peter Lehrman: We have a couple of different strategies for the different markets that we’re pursuing. We pursue sources of capital and the investment banking and business brokerage community. Beginning in 2014, we
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to a bit more of a chronological story. I understand the philosophy of how you built the company. It’s very interesting what you can do today in terms of really doing these kinds of testing on all marketing exercises at a very dramatic level. Today’s world allows you to do
Peruvian Entrepreneur, Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Belisario Rosas, CEO of WEI (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You have chosen to grow it to a substantial level with profits. What do you want to do with this company? Is it something you’re looking to sell? Do you want to continue running it forever? Belisario Rosas: Continue it. We run the company like a family business. We want to be one
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You were providing the management tools on the transaction but you were also making those connections. Peter Lehrman: Yes. At the core of Axial is a search engine that looks at the data related to the company that is raising capital or is for sale. It looks at all the data that is
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I understand that you constantly test and experiment but there must have been some kind of institutional truths that were emerging in terms of your pricing and business model? Andrew Filev: One of the big things that we found is this switch to packages in the SMB digital space. We tested and we’re
Peruvian Entrepreneur, Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Belisario Rosas, CEO of WEI (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Did you have that tendency of trying to do it all before this change happened? Belisario Rosas: Very much. I was buying. I was selling. I was doing everything. Sramana Mitra: You were running a substantial revenue company but you did not have any executive team? Belisario Rosas: That is correct. Sramana Mitra:
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of traction did you see? With that industrial manufacturing concentration, what kind of traction did you see in the beginning? Peter Lehrman: Very quickly, we had customers willing to pay us a couple of hundred dollars a month on the demand side. The private equity community was ready to pay –