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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: This is something that we are very much in alignment with. Our principle in the 1M/1M methodology is ‘Bootstrap first and raise money later’. The more you can do without raising money and the more carefully and more thoughtfully you can setup the foundations of your business outside of a venture clock, the
Do It For Me Analytics: Anil Kaul, CEO of Absolutdata (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the concept of Absolutdata? Anil Kaul: While I was at Personify, I had realized that analytics is a very powerful concept. This is going to be an area which will have a big impact on how businesses are done. That’s the first part. I also realized that as analytics becomes a
Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I didn’t find studying engineering boring at all. Varun Singh: The guys at PC Quest were so exciting. It probably wasn’t boring, but I started working with people who were a little too exciting at that point in time. Sramana Mitra: At 18, you were in Mumbai working for Chip Magazine. How long did that
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. I see what you’re doing. Did you start this company in 2012? Josh Manion: 2009. Sramana Mitra: At that point, you self-financed this company based on money from your consulting firm, right? Josh Manion: That’s right. My wife and I decided that we would bootstrap it while we were building the technology. That started
Do It For Me Analytics: Anil Kaul, CEO of Absolutdata (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We’re noticing a trend that I have written about in the past: SaaS-enabled BPO, also called Do It For Me (DIFM) technologies. The interview discusses the trend in some depth. Other stories on the subject include our case studies of AthenaHealth, Sabrix, and LatentView Analytics. Sramana
Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. There are very few true technology product companies out of India that have made it to the global market. Varun Singh founded one of them, ScaleArc. The company is currently headquartered in Silicon Valley and is executing well. Some of the others are: Druva, InMobi, and
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a bit about how the product is architected. You talked about what other people cannot do. What is it that you do? How do you architect the product that you can do something different and better? Josh Manion: That really started from the inception. When we looked at solving the
Entrepreneurship in Utah: Blackrock CEO Andy Gotshalk (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What was the thought process behind your taking this one on and not growing the other one? Is this one a higher potential opportunity? Andy Gotshalk: Yes, it has a higher potential. There’s a greater market for this technology. Another reason is that it is part of my desire and philosophy of where do