Building India’s Amazon: Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  [Also check out my Entrepreneur Journeys book, Seed India – How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India] I first learned about Flipkart when I discovered that Flipkart is the only e-commerce company in India that is selling my books online. Subsequently, they became the only company in India

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9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 7)

Sramana: Today, does Palo Alto Networks still sell just one product? Nir Zuk: Yes, although we have added a lot of features to it. We have mid-range and low-end platforms.

Bootstrapping Discussed On BlogTalkRadio

Kenneth Darryl Brown recently discussed Sramana Mitra’s book Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction with her on BlogTalkRadio’s The Passionate Entrepreneur!  You can listen to the entire interview here.

9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 6)

Sramana: Cost of development is also attributed to quality design. Perhaps you gained significant savings because of that? Nir Zuk: We saved money because we were able to hire extremely high quality engineers in the United States. You can’t hire the same quality of engineers in China or India.

9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 5)

Sramana: Who were your first customers? Were they in the financial industry? Nir Zuk: No, the finance industry is hard to get into. Our first customers were high-tech companies here in Silicon Valley. One of our first customers was SanDisk, a cutting-edge company. We also had an Constellation Energy, a Fortune 500 company on the

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Entrepreneur Journeys Discussed On BlogTalkRadio

Kenneth Darryl Brown recently discussed Entrepreneur Journeys with Sramana Mitra on BlogTalkRadio’s The Passionate Entrepreneur! You can listen to the entire interview here.

9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 4)

Sramana: How did it make you feel to watch your IPS drop to last in the marketplace when you were at Juniper? Nir Zuk: I did not like Juniper at all. The first day after they acquired NetScreen they came and explained to us that we did not know what we were doing and that

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9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 3)

Sramana: When you did your validation, did you find any other pain points? Nir Zuk: The major pain point was that companies were spending a lot of time and money on network security and monitoring security events on their network. They did not have the capability to stop security events. Companies would learn about a

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