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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Don Mal, CEO of Vena Solutions (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You grew up watching that way of life or owning your own business. That’s very common actually. I’m also an entrepreneur’s daughter. It makes that very big difference. Don Mal: I used to help my father in different roles. When I turned 16, I actually got a job selling insurance to fishermen. There
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Don Mal, CEO of Vena Solutions (Part 1)
Don grew up in a small island off the East Coast of Canada, and has built a capital-efficient business leveraging some key strategic assets. Very instructive interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Don
An Unconventional Set of Financing Paths: SRAX Founder Chris Miglino (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s pick a couple of how’s in what you have done where we can draw some lessons from the trenches. You pick from your journey where you can throw the maximum light on how you’ve done what you’ve done. Chris Miglino: I’ve been relentless. That’s what helped me be successful. One thing that’s
An Unconventional Set of Financing Paths: SRAX Founder Chris Miglino (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If you look back on that journey, what strategic levers did you push that were particularly good? Chris Miglino: You can walk into any ad agency in 2008 and 2009 and just say you have something on Facebook. They would throw money at you to test it out. Sramana Mitra: To understand what
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How long did you do this company for? What kind of metrics did you reach during that period? Aviram Jenik: We started in 1999 and we still do this today. Sramana Mitra: This is Beyond Security? Aviram Jenik: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Got it. Then let’s talk about the inflection points. From 1999 to
An Unconventional Set of Financing Paths: SRAX Founder Chris Miglino (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do after you sold? Chris Miglino: I went back to trading again. I updated the algorithms and started trading again. I took one of the top sales people at the company that we had sold and we started Social Reality together. We started Social Reality under the premise of selling
A Serial Bootstrapper’s Journey: Beyond Security CEO Aviram Jenik (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You were open to all the vulnerabilities. Aviram Jenik: Correct. That gave us the opportunity to do this security check for you. If your severs are out there in the Internet, we can also tell you if you’ve got all these problems. We started offering that as a remote. What’s funny about this
An Unconventional Set of Financing Paths: SRAX Founder Chris Miglino (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Did you sell for stock or cash? Chris Miglino: We sold for stock. We were fresh out of school. This was the first big business transaction that we had done. We had learned a lot about the stock market. We owned a lot of stock in this company that was having a very