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Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 4)
Sramana: You were working as a consulting developer for a small company to develop a medical front office management and billing solution. Did you decide to spin that out as a new company? Dan Rodrigues: As that project grew in scope, I started getting more and more excited about healthcare. I learned that the healthcare
Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 3)
Sramana: What did you do after you sold the company in 2000? Did you make enough to fund your next company? Dan Rodrigues: I made enough to take a few years off and fund my next venture, but not enough to retire on. After we sold that company, I teamed up with two of my
Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 2)
Sramana: You had some good work experiences while you were a student at the University of Washington. When you returned to California to attend UCLA, did you find similar opportunities? Dan Rodrigues: After I returned to Southern California to attend UCLA, I got involved in the computer science department there. I ended up meeting up
Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dan Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Kareo. He founded the company in 2004 with a vision of simplifying medical offices with web-based medical billing software. Prior to launching Kareo, Dan started creating technology for the healthcare industry in 2001 as a co-founder and managing
Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 7)
Sramana: How much money have you raised to get where you are today? Aydin Mirzaee: We have not raised any investment money. From time to time we have applied and won some government grants, but nothing major. We are basically a bootstrapped company. The co-founders did not take money for the first two years, and
Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 6)
Sramana: The survey market is quite full, and SurveyMonkey is a dominant player in the market. How did you compete against them? Aydin Mirzaee: In the beginning we were focusing on the Canadian market. We met governmental regulations that gave us a niche market. Once we had that funding, we started to focus on expanding
Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 5)
Sramana: Essentially you had to reposition yourselves in the marketplace. Where did you find your sweet spot? Aydin Mirzaee: We decided to focus entirely on the super niche market and dominate that particular market before moving on. That would let us be a big fish in a small pond, and we would worry about the
Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 4)
Sramana: What specifically did he want built for $10,000? Aydin Mirzaee: He wanted a system built for students to upload their business plans and presentations to a website for a business plan competition. The judges would be able to see the business plans and provide feedback and evaluation through the website. The website owner would