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Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Then what’s the next milestone after moving to that Microsoft strategy or becoming a more general plumbing support beyond security? Carl Mazzanti: Shared services. Our first level shared services was email filtering. Instead of selling someone a hardware appliance, we moved that to what everyone now calls the cloud. Back then, it was
Raising $20 Million from Angel Investors: Everyone Counts CEO Lori Steele Contorer (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Hats off to you that you were able to pull together this amount of angel capital because that’s a tough thing to do. Lori Steele Contorer: It was a tough thing to do and as I said, I’m not sure it was the right thing to do. Now, we’re in a very
Building a Founding Team Financed Business from Omaha, Nebraska: InfoFree CEO Rakesh Gupta (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happened to that company in the end? Rakesh Gupta: That company became part of a large corporation. It’s still part of Reed Elsevier. They still have whole group called Reed Travel Group (RTG). Sramana Mitra: How long did you stay at Reed? Rakesh Gupta: I was there for three years. Sramana Mitra:
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was it about WatchGuard that made you choose them at that point? Carl Mazzanti: WatchGuard had been around for 11 years at that point. Sramana Mitra: They were already quite a while into the market? Carl Mazzanti: They were established, yes. Sramana Mitra: That’s why you chose them. You thought you could
Raising $20 Million from Angel Investors: Everyone Counts CEO Lori Steele Contorer (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You’re not going to become a billion-dollar revenue company in two years. Lori Steele Contorer: No, the next presidential cycle is beyond 2016. The next one will be the 2020 election. Sramana Mitra: You said you originally raised some angel money and then acquired the Australian company for stock. Given that you had
Building a Founding Team Financed Business from Omaha, Nebraska: InfoFree CEO Rakesh Gupta (Part 1)
The InfoUSA founders sold their information service business and reconvened to build InfoFree, a next generation Data-as-a-Service business. The company is funded with $15 million of funding from the co-founders, especially Vin Gupta, founder of InfoUSA, and is in the $5M+ revenue range and is now looking to scale to the next level. Sramana Mitra:
Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 1)
Carl has bootstrapped eMazzanti using services to close to $10M, maintaining a 20% y-o-y growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background? Carl Mazzanti: I was born in Pennsylvania. I come from a military family.
Raising $20 Million from Angel Investors: Everyone Counts CEO Lori Steele Contorer (Part 5)
Lori Steele Contorer: We began to focus on United States for serving overseas and military voters. We did that because the numbers were staggering. 70% of the time that people tried to vote from abroad, their votes weren’t counted. That’s not because governments don’t count the vote unless they have to. That’s a misperception. Governments always have