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Bootstrapping Using Services: Krish Kupathil, CEO, AgreeYa Mobility (Part 3)
Sramana: Was that engagement what you used to get a product developed and launched? Krish Kupathil: That was just one example. We did other engagements as well. We did an engagement for Samsung and have customized devices for operators across the world such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Orange mobile had made a conscious
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krish Kupathil, CEO, AgreeYa Mobility (Part 2)
Sramana: Given the market flux that you observed, how did you start AgreeYa Mobility, and what was the premise of creating that company? Krish Kupathil: There were 18 of us, of whom 13 were in India and four in Korea. I was the only person here in the U.S. We felt that since mobility markets
Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 7)
Sramana: What is the future of the fat startup situation. Of course the market is skewed towards lean startups. Good angels now want to invest in deals that have traction. Ash Ashutosh: If you get back to the essence of business and the ability to articulate return versus risk, there is a lot of money
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krish Kupathil, CEO, AgreeYa Mobility (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Krish Kupathil is the founder and CEO of AgreeYa Mobility, an enterprise mobility and mobile system integration company. AgreeYa Mobility provides solutions for collaboration and communication products for mobile platforms, and has a flagship product lknown as Onvelop. Prior to AgreeYa Mobility, Krish was the vice
Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 6)
Sramana: What did you position Actifio to be when it emerged as a company? Ash Ashutosh: There is a lot of data storage sold because people love to protect, share and analyze their data. People spend more data making copies of data and managing data than they do producing data. They spend 5 to 13
Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 5)
Sramana: The financing market has gone away from fat startups. Everybody wants deals with traction. If you have a company that requires significant amounts of money to prove validation, how do you get that to market? Ash Ashutosh: This is a pivotal issue to this day. It is the core of culture. I am a
Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 4)
Sramana: It is interesting that you used different financial strategies in each of your first three businesses. Was this maturation of you as an entrepreneur? Ash Ashutosh: In each of these cases there was a method to the madness. Your business dictates the resources you bring to the table. Your business dictates the opportunity. If
Incubating a Fat Startup at Greylock: Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio (Part 3)
Sramana: How did the venture capitalist find you? Ash Ashutosh: I don’t know. He was out of Dallas so I am sure he heard about us somewhere. We were doing very well. The company had zero external financing. There were four co-founders who owned 100% of the company. When we got acquired we realized that