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Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 4)
Sramana: How did you manage the financial engineering of the company? Maria Haggerty: We raised $5 million in the early stages from angel investors. Our angel investors put money into the company through 2004. Sramana: Raising $5 million from angel investors is quite substantial. Who did you raise that money from? Maria Haggerty: We started
Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 3)
Sramana: How did your third and fourth years of business look? Maria Haggerty: As we continued to build the business and grow, we continued to build out our sales team. Our first real break came in 2004. Bill had served as chairman of the board of Lighthouse International, and I was a co-chair of a
Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 2)
Sramana: Let’s bit about that first customer and how you got up and running. What were the dynamics of getting your foot in the door in that industry? Bill Follet: Our business plan had to be adjusted almost immediately. We decided that if we were going to attract the right kind of customers, we would
Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 1)
Maria Haggerty and Bill Follett are the founders of Dotcom Logistics, the premier distribution partner for dot-com businesses. The company was founded in 1999 when online distribution was a significant challenge. Maria is a graduate of the University of Houston and spent five years at Arthur Andersen prior to founding Dotcom Logistics. Bill is a
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 7)
Sramana: If there is a small company looking to launch a new game on your platform, what kind of terms would you offer them? Lon Otremba: I won’t go into specifics, but we will offer a more favorable revenue share. They get greater than 50% of virtual goods revenue share, and we will share ad
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 6)
Sramana: What are you doing to be a game changer in this space? Lon Otremba: We are introducing the idea of how brands can live in our environment in ways which are appealing beyond games. We could introduce a major brand like American Express into our environment through a payment mechanism or through a virtual
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 5)
Sramana: When you market to your audience, do you have to do revenue sharing? Lon Otremba: If we are marketing we do not have to do revenue sharing because we are acquiring users directly. If AOL decides that they want to feature our games in their environment simply because our games monetize well, then we
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 4)
Sramana: What is your market reach? Lon Otremba: We are consistently running 10 million unique players a month. That is growing rapidly. We had 8 million just three months ago. The trajectory we are on now is one that we hope will provide us with 30 million monthly players by January or February. Sramana: How