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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 3)
David Chmielewski: We established Quavo as a virtual company. We used most of the methodology that we learned at BoA. How do you run a remote company? We all decided to leave our positions and start the company. We knew our platform like what we wanted to build on. We had a general idea of
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Our focus is on the early stage. Let’s double-click down on your early-stage work. How do you define early-stage? Dheeraj Pandey: I don’t believe in spray-and-pray. I get to know someone over five to seven meetings and sometimes tenacity helps as well. They must succeed if they’re tenacious. In the world of sales,
Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Why were you looking for remote work? David Chmielewski: I had found my wife at Auto Owners, got married, and didn’t want to leave. I grew up in Michigan. I still live there. I wanted to have the ability to spread my wings a little bit, but I knew it wasn’t necessarily going
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)
Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights into the gaps in the tech industry. Sramana Mitra: We’re going to continue the conversation we’ve had where we talked about his background as a founder of a successful high-growth company. We’re going to talk about
Bootstrapping a FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services: Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski (Part 1)
Dave transitioned from a developer to an entrepreneur by leveraging his solid domain knowledge in a particular area of FinTech: dispute resolution for credit card transactions. He and his co-founders effectively used bootstrapping using services and piggybacked on the Pega Systems platform. Read on to learn more about his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Is there also a special category of boutiques or designers? I have a very good friend whom I hired out of Bergdorf Goodman in 1999 to be my VP of Merchandising – Bruce Pask. His partner is Donald Dean who’s a couture designer. He has a ready-to-wear line, but he’s also very much
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: So tell me more about what happened when you launched it? Rafael Ortiz: The business was an app for digitizing your wardrobe. The thinking was, we would digitize everything in your closet and provide you with styling services. We would create outfits of all the items in your closet and use that as
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If I remember correctly, NexTag was a vertical search engine right? These half a million keywords were all within the domain of electronics. Rafael Ortiz: Initially yes. We added other categories like home goods and clothing. Sramana Mitra: How big a business did the tech product vertical search engine become? Rafael Ortiz: By
