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Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: At that point, you said you were charging subscriptions. Was anyone paying for subscription? David Barrett: That’s interesting as well. At that time, we weren’t charging. In fact, we didn’t intend to charge for a long time. We raised our million dollars, did our pivot and were doing expense reports. This business was going to
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 3)
John Miller: One of the challenges they have coming back into education is the whole on boarding process and preparing the employee to come back in. There’re a number of demands that really come into play here. When you start to think about regaining your study skills and the ability to do time management with the
Bootstrapping a Cloud Startup with Services on Force.com from London: Alex Fuller, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudSense (Part 3)
Sramana: How did you go about building your team in Croatia? Alex Fuller: We flew out there and did some relatively simple job advertising. We set up an assessment center where we invited people to come and spend a couple of days with us. We put them through a training course because the Force.com platform
Bootstrapping a Cloud Startup with Services on Force.com from London: Alex Fuller, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudSense (Part 2)
Sramana: If you were to position this in the context of 2009, when you founded the company, what would the competitive landscape look like? Who was your closest competitor? Alex Fuller: That’s a good question. We were offering this system to a number of companies but the telecom sector was a key focus for us
Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Who was your co-founder? How did you know him? Why him? David Barrett: His name is Witold Stankiewicz. He was my first hire at Red Swoosh. After I got fired, within a couple of weeks, everyone else quit. I was what was really holding that team at Akamai. They brought in some other
Bootstrapping a Cloud Startup with Services on Force.com from London: Alex Fuller, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudSense (Part 1)
The Force.com platform has been a great bootstrapping device for entrepreneurs. Read how Alex and Richard Britton bootstrapped CloudSense to a sizable product company on the platform. Sramana: Alex, let’s start with your personal journey. Where were you born and raised? What are the roots of your entrepreneurial story? Alex Fuller: I was born in
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 7)
Sramana: You have a unique situation in a founder-financed company. Where do you see things going in the future? Are you going to take a traditional route and look for an exit? Ratmir Timashev: Our current vision is to continue growing as a private company. We don’t need venture capital funds to keep growing. We
Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You joined that company in what capacity? David Barrett: Titles in startups are pretty meaningless, but I was the technology guy. I guess you could call me Head of Engineering or CTO. Travis wasn’t the programmer. I started off doing everything, and then I hired a team under me to help me out. Sramana