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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping by Piggybacking: Evenica CEO Sadek Ali (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You joined that other company, but you kept the software services that was going in parallel. Sadek Ali: Correct. Then we ended the business when I went to New York. From there, I came home because I felt that I had enough experience to do my own raise with my own ideas. In
Building a 2-sided Farm to Table Marketplace from Indiana: Nick Carter, CEO of Market Wagon (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: From your network, how big of a consumer base were you able to pull together? Nick Carter: We got to about 70 to 80 orders a week, which is $2,500 to $3,000 in sales. It was enough of a critical mass. Sramana Mitra: How long did it stay in just Indianapolis? Nick Carter:
Bootstrapping by Piggybacking: Evenica CEO Sadek Ali (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You started doing programming work for this one company. What happens after that? Sadek Ali: Once I had gotten that particular gig, the actual relationship lasted about two years. It happened to be with OpenText. This is where I got immersed with search technologies. I fell in love with them at that time.
Building a 2-sided Farm to Table Marketplace from Indiana: Nick Carter, CEO of Market Wagon (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Nick Carter: About 2013 is when I started working on food and agriculture. Sramana Mitra: What were you doing? Nick Carter: I started a food manufacturing business. Eventually, I realized that I needed to use my tech entrepreneurship skills to focus on the local food
Bootstrapping by Piggybacking: Evenica CEO Sadek Ali (Part 1)
Sadek has built an e-commerce platform company for the mid-market within the Microsoft ecosystem. Read on to learn more. 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 background? Sadek Ali: I was born in Canada. I grew up
Building a 2-sided Farm to Table Marketplace from Indiana: Nick Carter, CEO of Market Wagon (Part 1)
Nick tells a wonderful story of building Market Wagon into a thriving marketplace. Covid has been an immense force multiplier for the venture. 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 background?
Solo Entrepreneur Focused on Autonomy as Key Success Driver: Hank Luhring, Founder of IssueTrak (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How much were you pricing? Hank Luhring: It was $100 a month. This was before the cloud. There was a term back then called Application Service Provider. Sramana Mitra: I remember that. It was the precursor to the cloud.
Solo Entrepreneur Focused on Autonomy as Key Success Driver: Hank Luhring, Founder of IssueTrak (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When you started doing this alone, how long did that solo journey last before you started hiring programmers? Hank Luhring: Six months. My first client was Volvo Penta. The colleague of a former colleague called and said, “Do you know anybody who can develop some applications?” It happened to be a homebuilder’s association.
