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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: At that point, what did you tell them? What were you going to deliver for them? Jason Hogg: I was going to build them the first non-proprietary credit card network in America that would simultaneously have peer-to-peer transfer capability which only PayPal had at that time. I could build a proof of concept to
Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 1)
Jason raised both angel round and a VC round early on, but eventually, the company turned out to be a good, solid, profitable business, but not the kind of rocket VCs like to fund. Read how he negotiated with them to gain control of the venture. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of
Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to now? Jason Hogg: We’re now in 2002. The timing was actually interesting because when I was graduating from Cornell, the first dot-com bomb had gone off. There were a series of venture capital and private equity shops that had made co-investments in a number of
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Was that $1 million in the beginning the only capital infusion or have you had other capital infusions? Peter Lehrman: Since then, we’ve raised another $20 million. Sramana Mitra: Walk me through the chronology of those rounds of financing. Peter Lehrman: The subsequent $20 million has been raised across three financing rounds. The
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Based on our conversation so far, I picked up two key philosophies on how you build your company. One is this extensive A/B testing to optimize your customer acquisition. The second is evolving the product continuously through customer input and iteration. Andrew Filev: It’s true but I would phrase it a little differently.
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