Taking on Giants in the Contact Center Space: UJET CEO, Anand Janefalkar (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to? Anand Janefalkar: It brings us up to 2011. Motorola was an amazing company to be an employee. It was a little difficult to be a consumer. I got very jaded with a little bit of inaccurate marketing. Phone’s not selling to the potential of the

Read Full Article »

Taking on Giants in the Contact Center Space: UJET CEO, Anand Janefalkar (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re seeing new SaaS companies emerge that are taking on giant categories. In such businesses, positioning is extremely important. Read how Anand has positioned to get to 40 customers in the contact center software category. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning.

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Talk to me a bit about doing this in Tucson, Arizona. What are the dynamics? What is the community like and to what extent are you leveraging that community’s pros and cons? Joshua Strebel: In the early days, we were based in Phoenix first. We moved to Tucson about four years ago.

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 4)

Joshua Strebel: We really enjoy those complex, harder, and out-of-the-normal WordPress workflow cases. There’s also this site called bringatrailer.com. These are a couple of entrepreneurs that probably invite you for one of these interviews. They started with a little online auto auction site and now they’ve gone on to become one of the premier private

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the point where you hit the $1 million annual revenue run rate mark? Joshua Strebel: I think that was about 2011 to 2012. So, it took about two and a half to three years to get to a million a year. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. With a bootstrapped company, that’s

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were some of the mistakes? Joshua Strebel: Not really knowing how to market. For designers and developers, I think it’s so easy to build a product. It’s really hard to get that product into the hands of your customers. If you recall in that time period, when Twitter and Facebook were new,

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 1)

We recently did a Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona. Here is one more terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Joshua Strebel: I was born in a little town in

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How much money have you raised? Camilla Ley Valentin: Original funding from the seed/incubator ended up around $500,000 to $600,000 depending on the currency rate. We bought those shares back from the fund and then we actually turned around and sold them to a number of business angels here. Then we’ve added a

Read Full Article »