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Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 6)
Sramana: I find the area of cloud computing to be a key strategic area for companies right now. How does that landscape look from your point of view? Dan Adamany: The industry is evolving very quickly with cloud computing. Traditional resellers have aligned themselves within IT to verticals such as backup, storage, and servers. Today
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 5)
Sramana: In your early days when you were just an extension of the EMC sales channel, what king of margins did you operate on? Dan Adamany: They were all over the board. There was some money made on the front and they also provided back-end rebates. We make money based on the sale of the
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 4)
Sramana: What happened during your second year of business in 2008? Dan Adamany: We had a bit of a ramp. I had built up the coffers some, so I went after a well-known technical guru and another person who was a former college colleague of mine. He was at EMC and ran the area for
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 3)
Sramana: How did Ahead evolve from you being a consultant doing sales for EMC to where the company is today? Dan Adamany: The money I made as a paid consultant helped me fuel the business and hire additional people. As we hired additional people, they either brought existing relationships with them to Ahead or they
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 2)
Sramana: How did you structure the beginning of Ahead? Did you do it alone, and did you need financial help starting the company? Dan Adamany: One of my good friends at the time was Aaron Nack. We worked together at EMC for a while, and he had started a consulting business. He eventually sold his
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dan Adamany is the founder and CEO of Ahead, a leader in cloud computing. Prior to Ahead, Daniel played a pivotal role in EMC’s rise to prominence, winning several national awards for leadership and performance. Daniel is also involved in several entrepreneurial ventures within various industries,
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 7)
Sramana: You said that Eliza achieved profitability in two years with a lean, bootstrapped operation. What year was that, and what is the story from that point until today? Alexandra Drane: That was in 2001, once we had the platform we started receiving information from people in real time. We had a speech recognition system
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 5)
Sramana: Once you found the speach recognition technology that led to Eliza, what was your next step? Alexandra Drane: At that time I was 28 years old. I knew I was not yet ready to be a CEO, but I wanted to be involved and knew I had to get a team who could help