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9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 2)
SM: Why was it so difficult to get customers at OneSecure? NZ: A few months after we started the company, the [tech] bubble burst. Companies suddenly started watching their money. I also believe there was another key factor. At the end of the day, our managed service would replace the work that was done by
9.4M Dollars In Concept Financing To 100M In Bookings: Palo Alto Networks Founder Nir Zuk (Part 1)
Nir Zuk is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure. Nir also served as a principal engineer at Check Point
Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 7)
SM: Whom do you charge, and what do you charge, for the Patient Ally system? BO: We offer that for free. SM: So you are subsidizing that with your Office Ally business? BO: Correct. Our EHR product is the least expensive in the country. It cost $9.95 a month which subsidizes Patient Ally.
Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 6)
SM: What are your future plans for the company? Where is Office Ally headed? BO: We continue to find ways to reduce waste in healthcare. There is a concept called the accountable care organization.
EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy
I know I have a lot of readers from the EDA industry. Once a hotbed of innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation, it is an industry that is now moribund. VCs and angel investors have all but abandoned the industry, and those private companies that exist find it difficult to create lucrative exits, a phenomenon that
Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 5)
SM: What is the process for processing a paper claim? Aside from manual data entry, how does it increase cost over digital claims? BO: When a paper claim comes in it is scanned and OCR’d. It is then loaded into the system and the codes are error checked. If the doctor sends a bad code,
Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 4)
SM: If I understand your business, you have direct marketing and selling costs to the insurance companies. Is that correct? BO: Half of our growth every year is word of mouth. We sign up 1,200 new practices a month, which represents anywhere from 3,500 to 4,000 new doctors a month. Half of those come in
Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping Can Be Successful
Joanne Lang with AboutOne posted the following about Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 2) on Amazon.com: “I was not sure what to expect from this book; however, I read it cover to cover on a flight. It was interesting and provided some useful tips and quotes for a team meeting.