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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
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 6)
Sramana: When you founded Veeam and entered this market, there were all sorts of different players in different segments of the market. You were able to create a differentiated position for Veeam. What was the process of understanding and analyzing the market that allowed you to create your positioning? Ratmir Timashev: Part of that insight
Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 1)
VCs in Silicon Valley want financial levers that allow you to grow with a hockey-stick curve. Expensify doesn’t have that. In my opinion, however, they have built an excellent, profitable, steady growth subscription business that has an attractive viral characteristic. The business, at some point, may accelerate naturally, but as David notes, the levers are
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 5)
Sramana: How has the change in industry tolerance and culture affected your marketplace? Ratmir Timashev: These changes in business requirements have made the legacy solutions by Symantec and IBM less effective. Access to data should be almost continuous. You can only tolerate a few minutes of downtime and data loss should also be minimal. Everybody
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 4)
Sramana: What did you do when you left Quest? Ratmir Timashev: We left in 2005 and for the next year, we took our time to look around and find the next big idea. We saw that virtualization was the new big trend. I have some good friends in the venture capital community who told me that virtualization
Unicorn in the Making: Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev (Part 3)
Sramana: How far did you take the e-commerce business? Ratmir Timashev: The good thing is that we decided to build our online store on the Microsoft Windows NT platform, which was a business operating system and the first stable server. It became Windows 2000 and is now known as Windows Server 2012. My partner became a top expert on Windows NT
