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Solo Founder, Bootstrapping to $7 Million in India: Wingify CEO Paras Chopra (Part 2)
Sramana: When did you graduate from college, and what did you do after you graduated? Paras Chopra: I graduated in 2008. Even though I studied biotechnology, I remained very involved with computers the entire time. My area of concentration for biotechnology was computational biology. In that specialty I would model biological problems using computer programs.
Solo Founder, Bootstrapping to $7 Million in India: Wingify CEO Paras Chopra (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. [Also check out my Entrepreneur Journeys book, Seed India – How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India] Paras Chopra is the founder and CEO of Wingify, a company that builds web analytics and optimization technology to include its flagship product Visual Website Optimizer. Prior to Wingify, he was
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 7)
Sramana: There are larger companies such as Oracle who have internal projects to address the same market you are going after. Of course they have a lot more market reach than a startup. How do you position Gainsight knowing you have those types of companies getting involved? Nick Mehta: We have to focus on our
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 6)
Sramana: Thought leadership marketing is very expensive. When you are building a category, it takes time to build a market. It’s helpful to have competitors because you are no longer the only company investing in leadership marketing. Have competitors to Gainsight emerged? Nick Mehta: Yes, they have, and you are 100% right. I like having
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 5)
Sramana: What is the background of the founder of Gainsight? Nick Mehta: He was running another SaaS company called Host Analytics, a SaaS-based corporate performance management product. It is a sizable business with a lot of customers. He brought in a CEO and became the chief customer officer of Host Analytics. His job was to
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 4)
Sramana: Which firm did you join as an EIR? Nick Mehta: I joined Trinity Ventures at the end of 2007. That was great because it got me to step away from the singular vision of running a large business unit and opened my eyes to the entire world again. I was meeting with young entrepreneurs
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 3)
Sramana: What came after your exit from RedPoint? Nick Mehta: In 2002 I was talking about my career options with a VC. We were talking about big companies, and he told me that if I ever wanted to go work for a big company to get that experience, I should do it at that point
Scaling a SaaS Company in a Competitive Space: Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta (Part 2)
Sramana: I think it is great that you not only started the company while you were in College but that you were earning revenue as well. At that time it was very rare for an Internet company to actually have revenue. Nick Mehta: That was a crazy time as you know well. In June of