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Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 6)
Sramana: The problem with young founders is that they do not know what they don’t know. Paul Doscher: That is exactly right! Sramana: I was in that category. When I was going through that process, there was a big limit to how much I knew. Paul Doscher: When you face that situation, you can deal
Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 5)
Sramana: It sounds like the first two scenarios were pretty much exact opposites of each other. What was the third experience of replacing the founder as CEO like? Paul Doscher: The third scenario was, unfortunately, a bit of a train wreck. A new CEO role was mandated by the board. There was no passive-aggressive behavior
Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 4)
Sramana: How many times have you replaced founders as the CEO? Paul Doscher: Three times. Each time I have been a CEO, I have replaced a founder. Sramana: In each of those three scenarios, what was the situation you came into, and how did you both navigate the scenarios? Paul Doscher: The first situation was
Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 3)
Sramana: What is the genesis of Lucid? What was the premise of the company? Paul Doscher: Lucid Imagination is the commercial software company that supports and sponsors the Apache projects Lucene and Solr. They are the leading open source technologies around enterprise search. The company was founded in November 2008 by some of the original
Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 2)
Sramana: Where were you located when you worked at all of these companies in the Northeast? Paul Doscher: I moved to the West Coast after Business Objects. I became a vice president at Oracle for a $400 million business unit. I was traveling a lot and living a bi-coastal life. I still had my sons
Replacing Founders with CEOs: A Discussion with Paul Doscher, CEO, Lucid Imagination (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Paul Doscher is the CEO of Lucid Imagination, a company that delivers enterprise-grade search development platforms based on Apache Lucene/Solr open source search. Prior to Lucid, Paul held the position of CEO for Exalead Inc, a global provider of enterprise search, where he led the company
Bootstrapping to 8 Million from Brittany – Digitaleo CEO Jocelyn Denis (Part 7)
Sramana: How much of a market opportunity remains in France? If you did not make investments to expand outside of France, how big could you grow? Jocelyn Denis: I did an assessment of only the French market. There are 12 market segments we pursue there, and there are 200,000 potential customers in those markets. Currently
Bootstrapping to 8 Million from Brittany – Digitaleo CEO Jocelyn Denis (Part 6)
Sramana: Emails have become multiplatform and multidevice. I have the exact same email trail on my phone, iPad, and computer. I can see it on every device. When it comes to text messaging, I can see it only on my phone. I don’t have a trail of it everywhere else. It’s not a business communication
