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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to when you finished your Microsoft gig? Sunny Singh: 1996. Sramana Mitra: The Internet is now in full swing and you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Within that year that you worked at Microsoft, you figured out what it was that you were going to do
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What were the levers for scaling this? What strategy did you take to scale this business? Jason Wells: Strategy number one was to change the business from a professional services business into a software business. There was some back-end technology and some software that was built to help them do these things, but the
Bootstrap the First Venture, Raise Money for the Second: cVidya CEO Alon Aginsky (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I think your point is also that there are different kinds of employees. There are certain people who are startup type of employees. Alon Aginsky: Right. You have to be very precise about the people you hire. Most of the people that are in cVidya are veterans. Those are the people who join you for
Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Sunny has built a very interesting healthcare IT company, overcoming serious challenges. Inspiring story of a bootstrapped success. 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? Sunny Singh:
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What happens after Sony? Jason Wells: That leads me to where we are today – Convirza and a few other company names in between that process. My brother-in-law Jeremiah Wilson started a company back in 2001 called Contact Point. He was the typical entrepreneur. He just went ahead and did it. He started a professional services
Bootstrap the First Venture, Raise Money for the Second: cVidya CEO Alon Aginsky (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You said you started the company while you were still running the other one in 2001. Alon Aginsky: I finished all my responsibilities in the call accounting company in 2001. After the bubble burst, I started the cVidya journey. That was a different startup. We bootstrapped it in the beginning. We completed our institutional
Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I imagine, given what you’re doing right now, you’re already substantially profitable. Josh Levy: We run a profitable business. We try to invest every dollar back whether it’s additional hires, marketing, or content licensing. We still see so much opportunities in data and where the broader space can go. Sramana Mitra: That’s actually an interesting
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You left in 2005? Jason Wells: Yes, I left in 2005. I was tapped by a recruiter from Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures wanted to start and build a mobile content business around the world. They’ve got every movie asset. They have licensing rights for games and content. We had a 60-person development team to create creating mobile