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Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, May 29th

Sramana: Why did you give the advice to productize the software instead of selling it off? Rod Brown: I felt that it could become a software solution that was used across the nation. Sramana: When you made that statement what was your vision of what the product would become? Rod Brown: The product was built

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th

Sramana Mitra: What happens after that? Mattias Larson: Then I landed in Stanford, Connecticut. That’s where my US journey started. I still worked for that same Swedish software company. They are yet to open an office in the US. They needed someone with technical expertise in this particular product. I came in over to train.

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Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We constantly hear from pundits that specific demographic groups face bias in the industry. Rod Brown works with a team of black entrepreneurs in North Carolina, and has a refreshingly positive attitude with which they’re building OnceLogix. His simple message: ‘Solve problems.’ Sramana: Rob, tell us

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, May 27th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We’re seeing a clear trend towards bootstrapping digital startups while holding onto a full-time job. Mattias Larson has a simple but powerful story to tell. Sramana Mitra: Mattias, tell us about you. Where did your journey begin and in what kind of background? Mattias Larson: I

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Building a Silicon Valley Style Company from Australia: ROKT CEO Bruce Buchanan (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, May 27th

Sramana: One of the things I really like about your platform is that because you are sitting in the transaction, you have a very rich value proposition. You are also able to engage with people who have their credit card out. The Internet is full of free riders. You have filtering those out. Targeting on

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Building a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million: Dr. Rob Langdon, Co-Founder of T-System (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, May 26th

Sramana Mitra: What scale is the company at now? Rob Langdon: It’s approaching nine figures. Sramana Mitra: Sounds like it’s becoming an enterprise software and healthcare IT company at this point. Is there anything else that is interesting in the story that you would like to discuss? Paper played such an important role. That’s actually

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Building a Silicon Valley Style Company from Australia: ROKT CEO Bruce Buchanan (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, May 26th

Sramana: I like your approach because it lets the partners know that you are not taking their data and helping somebody else. Bruce Buchanan: That is very important and that is why our partners are comfortable with us. One of the things that we had to go through with the eBays of the world was

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Building a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million: Dr. Rob Langdon, Co-Founder of T-System (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, May 25th

Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sales channel that was selling the paper product into the hospitals and physician groups then switched over to selling this software product? Rob Langdon: We tried different configurations with the sales group. For a while, paper and electronics were separate. Then they were combined. Then we tried regions. Since

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