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Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Even though it was registered in Delaware, you were running the company in Denmark? Steven Boye: You can say that the company’s engineering department was running out of Denmark. It’s actually the same today with Soonr. All engineering operations are done here in Denmark. All the financial, PR, HR, and business development operations are
Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to 2008. You decided to do this vertical solution for the travel agency. Who were the first customers that you went after and who bought into your value proposition? Charles Mi: The first customer we went after was US Airways, partly due to the personal relationship that Layton has with
Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You’re talking about protecting critical assets essentially. Chuck Bloomquist: Yes, you can call it critical assets. Whether it’s IP or regulatory control data, to us, it didn’t really matter. Sramana Mitra: How did you determine what was categorized as critical assets? Chuck Bloomquist: It’s based on value to the organization. If your revenue
Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I remember NetObjects. Steven Boye: I moved back to Silicon Valley and lived there for a few years. NetObjects went public. My wife is a professor at a university in Denmark. She wanted to continue her career in Denmark, so we moved the family back to Denmark again. Sramana Mitra: What year was
Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happened to that company? Charles Mi: We lasted for three and a half years. It was a very interesting idea, but we didn’t really discover the business potential. We also tried to make different things at a time instead of focusing on one thing. We were doing three different products at the same
Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When was this company founded? Chuck Bloomquist: In 2002. Sramana Mitra: When you started the company, what were the circumstances? Did you and your co-founder put a product together and start selling to customers? Were there customers first? Chuck Bloomquist: We really didn’t have a product. We just had a concept. We had
Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 1)
How does a little company with most of its engineering in Denmark compete with Box and Dropbox? Read the story of Soonr. Sramana Mitra: What is the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey? Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What’s the back story of the entrepreneurship story? Steven Boye: I’m a US-Danish
Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 1)
The Lean Startup methodology has created a frenzy to pivot. Entrepreneurs seek instant gratification, and when they don’t get it, they rush to pivot. The market is strewn with false negativities as a result, because entrepreneurs don’t have the patience to stay with a concept, develop it, and sell it. ADARA is a counter-example that