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Gaps in Analytics: Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics (Part 2)
Sramana: What is the background and history of Host Analytics? Jon Kondo: Host Analytics was founded in 2000 by Jim Eberlin. He had the idea of rented software in corporate performance management. He bootstrapped the company for the first seven years. He waited for the marketplace to catch up to his vision. Once it did,
Gaps in Analytics: Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Jon Kondo is the CEO of Host Analytics, a provider of cloud-based analytics and business intelligence tools. Prior to serving as the CEO at Host Analytics, Jon was North American Group Vice President at Oracle where he was responsible for 200+ people and all EPM revenue.
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 7)
Sramana: If you are seriously thinking about heading out to get an executive MBA, then I will tell you to save yourself the money and trouble. Just do 1M/1M. We teach everything about entrepreneurship in a very efficient program for just $1,000 a year. Valerie Holstein: Maybe I should do that. I will definitely look
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 6)
Sramana: What are the functions that you staff for today? Customer support and shipping are obviously key roles. Valerie Holstein: Right now it is mostly customer service associates and outside sales people. We have a reverse approach to business. We are technically 100% e-commerce, but we recognize that in order to leverage our exposure, we
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 5)
Sramana: You had massive growth from $200,000 in revenue to $16 million in revenue. What did you do in terms of marketing? Valerie Holstein: Believe it or not, I was not doing any advertising at that time. It was all organic growth and traffic. I could not go fast enough to serve the customer base
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 4)
Sramana: How much revenue did you generate from CableOrganizer.com during your first year? Valerie Holstein: I did a little bit under $200,000. Sramana: Wow! That is not bad for a garage, grass roots operation. Valerie Holstein: Every penny that we made was reinvested in purchasing more product for inventory. Whatever was not reinvested in additional
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 3)
Sramana: In 2002 when you started selling things to hide computer cables, how did people find your website? Was it primarily via your blog? Valerie Holstein: Yes, it was from the blog. I had a couple of pages that explained the issues we had and what products were helpful in hiding the cables. People started
Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 2)
Sramana: When did you start CableOrganizer.com? Valerie Holstein: We actually started the company 10 years ago when I was nin3 months pregnant with my child. I was still working full-time as a drafting engineer for a screen enclosure company. My husband was working more than full time at Computer Science Corporation. He was a trainer
