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Building Fat Startups: Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez (Part 1)
Andres Rodriguez is a rare Latin American entrepreneur in hard core tech. In this era of ‘lean startups’, Andres has built a couple of ‘fat ones’ and in this interview, we discuss what he has learnt, and what he advises other entrepreneurs wrestling with the need to raise money to fund ‘fat startup concepts’. Sramana Mitra: Andres, where
Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 5)
Sramana: Was the high tech space your narrow market niche? Mark Organ: We actually worked hard to be very specific in the verticals we addressed. We became very good at micro-verticals within the application software space. The idea is to split the market into thin verticals and then get absolute dominance of those verticals. We
From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: All right and with this model, you have generated about a $100 million in affiliate commissions so far. Of which, about 70% of that has been paid-out to your partners? David Sharpe: Technically, 100%. Last year, we did around $63 million in product sales. All of that, less processing fees, are given out
Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 4)
Sramana: What industries did you initially target and what was your sales cycle like? Mark Organ: Initially, we targeted the insurance, finance, and real estate markets. There are a lot of finance and insurance companies in Toronto and I had a lot of experience working with companies in that space during my time at Bain.
From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: If you’re claiming that part of your secret stuff in building this company is this 30,000 affiliate network, then I need to understand how you got to 30,000 affiliate partners in two years. I’m looking for round numbers. Let’s say you pay 90% commission to one layer of affiliate and they go and
Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 3)
Sramana: What was your pitch to potential clients? Mark Organ: We can provide the best quality leads to your sales people, because those leads are already on your website and you just need to talk to them. Sramana: It is very easy to get people to talk to you when you give them that pitch.
From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You pay what percent as affiliate commission? David Sharpe: It’s not quite 100% commission because we’ve got merchant, accounting , and processing fees. The commission is between 90-94% for our core product lines. We’re doing a $12,500 event at the beginning of March. Clearly, there’s event cost for that but instead of paying
Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 2)
Sramana: What specifically did you do during the incubation process at Bain? What did you accomplish before you left to run Eloqua full time? Mark Organ: I focused on customer development. One of my co-founders, Steve Woods, was also at Bain and did a lot of coding. He was also on a lot of customer