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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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entrepreneur journeys
Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What does the internet do to your business? Let’s say we are talking about the time period from 1994 to 1996 when the Internet was happening. How does your company change? Dean Guida: It was way back when it started. So, we had to create a website, which helped us a lot. We
Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 4)
Dean Guida: We got out there and we were in a room with 12 people. These were the guys who wrote the compiler, debugger, linker, and then there’s me and my girlfriend. I was like, “Oh my god. Don’t hold my hand. Don’t look at me. Don’t do anything.” Chris, a guy that was there,
Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 3)
Dean Guida: When we finally finished our first version and were going to bring it to market, everybody was reading this Charles Petzold book. It was this 600-page book. You had to learn all these APIs. We were going to market with this framework to help people build business applications faster, but no one was
Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics ( Part 2)
Dean Guida: When I graduated from school, I moved up to New York City because I wanted to work for all the smart people. There is a lot of money in New York City. I started my company when I was 23. It was 1989. All the smart people like Microsoft and these other companies
Bootstrapping for 30 Years: Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics (Part 1)
Dean has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values. Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? Dean Guida: When I was six years old, my mom and dad
How to Create a Monopoly in an Esoteric Niche: Steelcloud CEO Brian Hajost (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is the total size of the company? Brian Hajost: We will do $8 million this year and we have 27 people. Sramana Mitra: Are all of them in the Washington DC area? Brian Hajost: All of them are in our office in Washington DC. As you mentioned, it is a niche product
How to Create a Monopoly in an Esoteric Niche: Steelcloud CEO Brian Hajost (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Are the system integrators required to install something like this? Brian Hajost: No, nobody is required to install it. Systems integrators use it because they have a program that requires that they do this hardening work. They use the product in that work. The product takes two minutes to install and two hours
How to Create a Monopoly in an Esoteric Niche: Steelcloud CEO Brian Hajost (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You mentioned that you started building the solution in 2012 and then launched it in 2014. Did I hear that correctly? Brian Hajost: That is correct. Sramana Mitra: This period between 2012 to 2014 and the five people that were working on this, how was that financed? Was it from the sale proceeds
