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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that’s worth discussing in your story in terms of strategy and moves that led to big losses or wins? Hamid Shojaee: From an entrepreneurial standpoint, I think that having that focus on a particular market segment is very important and then doing things for that market segment that creates
Comment-Selling on Facebook: Smocked Auctions Founders Amy Laws and Nicole Brewer (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Advertising on Facebook is complicated. You can spend tons of money getting ‘Likes’ without making any sales. Smocked Auctions is very smart about actually ‘selling’ on Facebook. Much to learn! Sramana: Amy and Nicole, I would like to start by talking a bit about your personal
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: This whole phenomenon of having employees do intrapreneurship is a big trend that we’re looking at a lot. In our incubation program, we do a lot of corporate incubation. We have this Incubator-in-a-Box program that a bunch of corporations are using to layer their own incubation programs. We run, for example, a large
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 7)
Sramana: After listening to your story, it really seems like the software model is the best option for scaling the business and that there is a lot of opportunity there. Rod Brown: There is plenty of opportunity in the US as well as opportunities abroad. We are looking at an opportunity in South Africa that
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about competition. This is very standard, right? Going from an on-premise to SaaS subscription model, businesses will always take a hit and then come back to a growth path. That’s very standard process. My next question is more a question on competitive landscape ecosystem. What is your
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 6)
Sramana: How big is your SaaS business from a revenue perspective, and how does that compare to your clinical side? Rod Brown: A little north of $2 million dollars a year in recurring revenue. Last year the other side of the business did about $4.5 million dollars. Sramana: Do you anticipate buying more behavioral health
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: From 2012 to 2014, what are the highlights of the journey? Mattias Larson: We doubled the revenues in the first year and a half. We grew the business from 2 to 14 people. We really managed to crack paid search. We managed to get some big brands on board that were difficult to
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s step through the customer acquisition strategy. How did this $50,000 to $300,000 to $3 million happen? What was the customer acquisition strategy that was driving this growth? Hamid Shojaee: While I was working at Microsoft, the way I treated it was that I don’t need this extra income. 100% of that extra