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Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Had you already moved to Silicon Valley before raising the money? This is another key question that a lot of entrepreneurs are wrestling with and making decisions on. Jonathan Ellis: Yes. It actually wasn’t an explicit condition of the funding and we actually took another 3 months or so before moving the headquarters.
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 5)
Sramana: What happened to that business? Manish Sharma: We were caught in the crash. Not a lot of people remember how fast that happened, but I definitely do! The company did not go anywhere. Sramana: What did you do after the dot com crash? Manish Sharma: We had 40 people in India at that point
Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I am going to probe you on a couple of different points. Did you start DataStax while you were still inside of Rackspace? Jonathan Ellis: No. We were working on Cassandra at Rackspace but we started DataStax, originally called Riptano, after leaving Rackspace. Sramana Mitra: So, by the time you left Rackspace and
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 4)
Sramana: Where you trying to develop another company after you returned to India or did you decide to go back into services work? Manish Sharma: I continued forward with my goal of establishing a product company. I finally came up with a product idea in the AI space which had been a passion of mine
Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This is an interesting story of how an open source software company built around Cassandra was incubated by RackSpace and has grown to $5 million in revenue. Founded by engineers Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, the interview traces not only the successes of their journey but
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 3)
Sramana: So you partnered with Informix? Manish Sharma: Yes, we partnered with Informix. They could not meet the deal requirements without us because they were a product provider, not a systems integrator. The database was a small part of the overall project. We had to submit our own credentials to win the bid. We worked
Bootstrapping an App to $10 Million in Revenue: Christophe Bach, CEO of TextMe (Part 7)
Sramana: Can you talk, Christophe, about what has been your strategy in terms of building the team? You started with four co-founders and sounds like Julien came on board about a year later. Who else is on the team now, how big is the team and what has been your philosophy in building the team
Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 2)
Sramana: Why would the National Stock Exchange commission ask you to build a mission critical transaction system? Did you have credentials to gain their confidence? Manish Sharma: They were not our first customer. We were able to build a good portfolio before we started working on those high profile projects. Our first customer was Indian
