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Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 3)
Sramana: How did Ahead evolve from you being a consultant doing sales for EMC to where the company is today? Dan Adamany: The money I made as a paid consultant helped me fuel the business and hire additional people. As we hired additional people, they either brought existing relationships with them to Ahead or they
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 2)
Sramana: How did you structure the beginning of Ahead? Did you do it alone, and did you need financial help starting the company? Dan Adamany: One of my good friends at the time was Aaron Nack. We worked together at EMC for a while, and he had started a consulting business. He eventually sold his
Bootstrapping A 130 Million VAR In The Midwest: Ahead CEO Dan Adamany (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dan Adamany is the founder and CEO of Ahead, a leader in cloud computing. Prior to Ahead, Daniel played a pivotal role in EMC’s rise to prominence, winning several national awards for leadership and performance. Daniel is also involved in several entrepreneurial ventures within various industries,
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 7)
Sramana: You said that Eliza achieved profitability in two years with a lean, bootstrapped operation. What year was that, and what is the story from that point until today? Alexandra Drane: That was in 2001, once we had the platform we started receiving information from people in real time. We had a speech recognition system
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 5)
Sramana: Once you found the speach recognition technology that led to Eliza, what was your next step? Alexandra Drane: At that time I was 28 years old. I knew I was not yet ready to be a CEO, but I wanted to be involved and knew I had to get a team who could help
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 4)
Sramana: What were some of the major lessons learned between the time you left Axon Group and joined Eliza? Alexandra Drane: I left CDI to start Axon which was a value capital company. One of the startups with Axon was NewMed which was a medical device company. At each company I have been involved with
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 3)
Sramana: When you left Axon Group, what company did you create and what was the thesis behind that company? Alexandra Drane: We founded Tesseract with the idea that we would use Web-enabled functionality to help with injury tracking. During our consulting work we had noticed that many times when folks come in to do technology
Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 2)
Sramana: What path did you take from that upbringing? Alexandra Drane: Throughout high school and my early college years I would work in my dad’s startups. He invested in a lot of technology companies and startups in the local area. I was a complete slacker in high school, and I went primarily to have fun.