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How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You brought in $20 million worth of revenue through Answers.com. What strategic reengineering did you do to the property to get it to the next level? David Karandish: The previous team at Answers.com was doing very little optimization and split testing. For those who aren’t familiar with this, split testing is where you
Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s stay in the 2006 to 2007 timeframe. I’m assuming that you’re talking about a period when you hadn’t yet started the business because all of these things had to be in place to launch a custom tailoring shop, right? Kyle Vucko: Right. Sramana Mitra: So you identified one or two tailors in
Bootstrapping a $175 Million Business with Services: TEOCO CEO Atul Jain (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What timeframe are we talking about when you were $20 million in revenue in this business? Atul Jain: About 2005 to 2006 timeframe. Sramana Mitra: A $20 million dollar business and now you have a competitor that is going belly up and you buy that competitor for cash.
How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: When you were going through this whiteboarding process of what your vision of what the company wants to be when it grows up, what was the financial situation of the company? David Karandish: We were profitable. We were generating revenue. We were small, but we were doing each of those and we realized
Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 1)
Mass customization has been the holy grail of fashion e-commerce for the longest time. Meet Kyle Vucko, CEO of Indochino, a men’s fashion company that has cracked the code. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Kyle
Bootstrapping a $175 Million Business with Services: TEOCO CEO Atul Jain (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was the intellectual property that you bought? From whom did you buy it? Atul Jain: It was a one-person entity. I hired a person that had a bit more telecom knowledge than I did. I asked him about what I could build and he talked about doing something in the billing reconciliation
How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: A plan did not exist at that time? David Karandish: Answers.com was not a parallel path. We acquired Answers.com in 2011. Around 2008-2009, we did a white boarding strategy session. We brought some of the key management team members in and asked them, “If we were going to build the ultimate Internet company,
How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 1)
You would think question and answer sites are hard to monetize. Read how David Karandish built Answers.com to be a profitable $200M+ company … Note, the much-hyped Quora doesn’t monetize at all yet. Sramana Mitra: David, let’s start with your background. Where does your story begin? What is the back-story to the Answers.com story? David Karandish: