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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2004? Hamid Shojaee: First of all, that was a very interesting wakeup call in observing how Microsoft, as a company, operates and how competitive they are, and how laser-focused on competition they are. I got introduced to various different things with respect to talking points. Microsoft was very savvy in
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 4)
Sramana: That is a very good revenue stream for your first year. Great work! By the end of the first year, all three of you had quit your full-time jobs to work on the startup. What happened the second year? Rod Brown: We just continued to grow. I think 95% of our clients deal with
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Were you working with an affiliate network? Mattias Larson: Yes, I started with Commission Junction. Right now, we’re probably a member of most of the networks out there. Sramana Mitra: I suppose there is a certain intelligence that you apply to selecting what you want to merchandise on your site. Did you have
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 3)
Sramana: How did you balance starting a company in your off hours as a collective team? Rod Brown: We mapped out a plan. In the first month that we rolled out our product, we signed up 5 customers. We felt like that was a good start and we knew we could make money after that.
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You used the Internet to find you and then draw traffic in and then act as an affiliate partner to these deals? Mattias Larson: Exactly. I found all these good deals and different coupons. “Here’s the best price that you can get on this Dell computer, but hurry up it’s only good for
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Bootstrapping using a paycheck is a real trend. Here’s one more case study! Sramana Mitra: Hamid, tell us a bit about yourself. Where were you born and raised and in what kind of background? Hamid Shojaee: I was born and raised in Iran. I was 10
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 2)
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
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson (Part 2)
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.