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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like the business you built is this flexible toolkit with which you can put together health applications. What kind of clients did you go after with that basic concept? Robin Wiener: We’re small and we have some big partners. We do the personal health records. We work with the patient. The
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How do you position against a Huddle? We’ve done the Huddle story for instance. SharePoint is a well-known product. Tell me how you position against each of them. The reason I ask you is because we try to give our readers a lot of exposure on positioning. If you could help us think
Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 3)
Robin Wiener: We were lucky enough to do a project. I had gone out and recruited a company that wanted to do wellness. We built a wellness platform for them. Sramana Mitra: You were basically doing contract software work at this point. Out of those three desks at the incubator, you were taking projects and building
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: £50,000 is a high-touch sale. Ajay Patel: It’s a high-touch sale. When I look at the customer lifetime value, that’s what’s actually impressive. We’ve compared sales. Who are the clients we’ve had in January 1, 2012? What do they make? What do the same clients make in January 2013? Our average cohort is 25%.
Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 1)
Jory Lamb started as an entrepreneur as a 23-year old in rural Canada. Read his 18-year journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jory Lamb: I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. I was also born
Building Large Scale Enterprise Software Companies: Louis Tetu, Founder of Taleo, CEO of Coveo (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: There are a lot more hubs that have developed where interesting companies are built. You probably know Greg Gianforte who had built up a very interesting unorthodox place like Montana into a very nice technology destination. Louis Tetu: Technology is ubiquitous. Regardless of where we are, we all have the challenge of distributed
Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 1)
Robin has built an excellent company with large, international clients in the healthcare domain and has used the bootstrapping using services technique that we espouse in 1Mby1M. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Robin Wiener:
Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of projects were you taking on during that time? Ajay Patel: Development projects. Sramana Mitra: So it had nothing to do with the legal industry? Ajay Patel: Not much, to be honest. Sramana Mitra: You got whatever you got and you did whatever you could get.
