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Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 1)
Concept financings are extremely rare in the industry these days, but here is a story of an entrepreneur who did raise $8 million on a concept from Andreessen Horowitz. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What were the implications on your team? What did you need to do to scale from a team point of view? Todd Dunlop: One of the things that we always did was try to figure out how to get the best professional services. Very early on, when we went from four people to
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Chris Grandi: 2001. At the end of 2001, I was essentially committed to taking off six months to figure out what I was going to do about starting my next company. Despite not making money in that first entrepreneurial endeavor, I was committed to starting my own
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: You were able to find people with experience in Prague? Vince Steckler: Not too successfully. For the most part, what we did was transplant people. For example, I brought over my old deputy from Symantec to run sales. He ran sales out of Prague for two or three years and groomed one of
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that story chronologically. You started that in 2004? Todd Dunlop: Yes. We always talked about how we got started. It was sort of bootstrapping. Sramana Mitra: You said AdWords was just coming on. You essentially helped companies understand AdWords and market through AdWords. That’s what you were doing? Todd Dunlop: We
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the next move after Maxim? Chris Grandi: I took a pretty divergent turn. I thought that maybe I wanted to be in Wall Street. I joined the Goldman Sachs Associate program out of Harvard Business School and joined their fixed income group. I was an associate in that group specifically focusing
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You were able to cater to all that from Prague? Vince Steckler: Both from Prague and the community. Prague is very cosmopolitan. We can do a lot of support and customization but what’s most important is the community. Most users don’t realize where the company is from. Brazilians tend to think the company
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 1)
Most serial entrepreneurs have figured out certain unique ways in which they operate. In this story, we get to learn about Todd’s process. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Todd Dunlop: I was born in