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Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How does that work out ROI-wise? $3,000 is the security deposit and $10 a month. For how long? Is there a cap? Omri Dor: We’ve done a lot of experiments since. The price is in the range of 6% to 12% APR on your deposit. If you choose the Obligo service and keep
From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Your Series A was mostly angels? David Moss: There were some traditional VCs in Series A as well. Sramana Mitra: What was the size of the Series A? David Moss: I think it was around $4 million. With Series B, we filled it out with more corporate investors. They also turned into customers.
From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 5)
David Moss: The third thing we do is we’re bringing people together. If we look at the history of computing, in every era, killer apps would emerge. These apps were killer because they’re viral. They’re viral because they’re social. What’s key is to take the newest technology of the day and find how we can
Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What about customers? Did you have customers? Omri Dor: That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Roey and I did a couple of trips to London. We went there and were going door-to-door to residential brokers. We would walk in and show them the demo and a video. It was an
From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When did this insight on senior care come to focus? David Moss: We knew we wanted to get into senior care around 2016. It takes time to orient that product in that direction. We had to keep the company alive. We wanted to position this technology more in this direction. It was in
Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: When you went out for seed funding, what did you have? Did you have an MVP? Omri Dor: We started working on it. In the beginning, it was me and Roey. For his other businesses, he had this building with offices. We were sitting there figuring out some stuff. We started thinking about
From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: All these things that you talked about fit under positioning. Product positioning makes or breaks the business. You have to hit the right pain points, the right go-to-market strategy,and the right segmentation. The next question I want to ask you is, you were tinkering with certain ideas in 2009, but the real idea
Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the genesis? What was the idea? Omri Dor: I should mention that ever since I was 20, I would always keep a record of all my ideas. I would try to classify them. I would do due diligence on my own ideas. I did this a lot. Every once in a
