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Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What about the team? Tell me a bit about the three best at the Maryland Incubator. How did that all play out? Robin Wiener: We started out with three people. One of the guys we worked with early on was Raj. He is kind of our fourth partner and a phenomenal one. He moved back to Bangalore
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Abraham Gutman, CEO of AG Mednet (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Moving big images is no big deal. Abraham Gutman: I said, “I won’t compress images. Who cares about compressing? There’s a lot of capacity in the ground already. Tell me how big a pipe I need and I’ll just make or lease a pipe. I can move truck loads of images very fast
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I’m with you that you set that up as a separate entity, ran by a full-time manager, and you focused on oil and gas contract software development. That’s where we are, right? Jory Lamb: We focused on oil and gas commercial software products that would sit on top of SAP. We got out
Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 6)
Robin Wiener: US is also starting to think about that a little bit. The other place where we’ve launched is Australia. It’s the same model of telehealth. We’ve partnered with Telstra Health, which is the largest telecommunications company in Australia. We’re rolling out our first application there. A new region that is very interesting is the
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was the go-to-market? Was it the same? You identified some influencers, sold to influencers, and then leveraged them to sell to the rest of the market, is that right? Jory Lamb: It was a little bit different, but we started that way. We went into an area of influencers. We worked with consulting
Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 5)
Robin Wiener: The next phase, which is very exciting, is to push that patient information back into the hospital so that they can get better care. We have an alert system. Let’s say your blood sugar gets out of whack, an alert is sent out to let the doctor know what’s going on with you.
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting that I should have asked you about? Ajay Patel: One thing I think is very important for every SaaS business like ours is profitability. The market is soon going to not accept that a lot of SaaS businesses aren’t profitable. The argument is always that the customer acquisition cost
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let me see if we’ve got what you’re trying to say here. You got it off by providing training to farmers in Canada. That was the primary revenue-generating business that went on in the beginning. At some point in that time frame, you were offered to do a custom software development work by