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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 1)
When you run a business over a long period of time, technology changes create massive challenges. David has navigated TemplateMonster in several of these. 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 circumstances? David Braun: I’m from Georgia
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Can you succinctly explain what it is that you have that these large companies don’t have that enables you to win those accounts? Dave Copps: I’d say it’s two things. It’s our core technology and our user experience. We have built a technology that can learn dynamically without the use of any human intervention. Most
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How big was the LexisNexis deal? Dave Copps: It ended up being a multi-year deal that paid us over $3 million. Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome. Dave Copps: For a startup, it’s amazing. Sramana Mitra: What about the early parts of this company? Obviously, you had made money from the previous company and you
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 3)
Dave Copps: I think when you have too much money, you get lazy. I like the idea that you’re always conscious of every dollar you spend. When I say we raised $3 million, that’s because we brought in more than that in revenue to continue bootstrapping a big piece of it. We were finally given
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year was that? Dave Copps: That must have been 1997 or 1998. I founded my first company in 1999. I literally found a scientist, and we started writing algorithms. We were using Matlab. It didn’t scale. We went down a few paths. We failed and start over, failed and start over, and failed
Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 1)
Artificial Intelligence startups are very hot these days. Read how Dave Copps has built Brainspace from Dallas. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Dave Copps: I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. My dad
Women ARE Raising Venture Capital: Kerry Cooper, CEO of ChooseEnergy (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Talk about your financing strategy. You just mentioned that it takes a lot of cash to acquire those customers upfront and it takes time for them to really pay off. What is the financing strategy? Kerry Cooper: We’ve raised $25 million over three rounds. We’ve got a great set of investors who are
Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: This is actually a great story. I love stories like this. There’s another entrepreneur whose story I’ve covered. For the first four years, he had no revenue. In the fifth year, they had a million dollars in revenue, and in the sixth year, $100 million. If you’re interested, you can check out his
