Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 6)

SM: In 2004 when you merged the two companies, what was the revenue of the new entity? GR: It was just shy of $3 million.

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Zest For Creation

 Here is a nice review of Sramana Mitra’s Innovation: Need Of The Hour, volume four of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series, by ForeWord Clarion Reviews: “The time is now for ‘a system that rewards long-term, sustained effort in solving humanity’s biggest problems, not one driven by unbridled greed,’ Sramana Mitra writes in the fourth volume in her series

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 5)

SM: What was going on in the marketplace at that time? Why was there doubt that additional network monitoring software would be needed? GR: While customers had plenty of choices, many times those customers were not happy. The companies they were buying it from were not focused on customer satisfaction.

Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 4)

SM: What was your solution for European companies? GR: It is very difficult for European companies to get established in the United States. The United States is such a large market, and European companies can spend such a large amount of money trying to get established without much success.

Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 3)

SM: So you were able to build a portfolio of skills by working as many different types of positions as you could? GR: Yes. By 1997 I had worked for a couple of different companies and had learned how to do sales, marketing, and manage channel partners. I already had the technical and engineering aspects.

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 2)

SM: That is an interesting parallel to how Zoho is operated. They have a very large operation in Chennai, India. They recruit high school grads and train them in their own operations. It is great because unless these kids get into one of the top colleges in India, they are not going to learn much.

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 1)

Gary Read has been the president and CEO of Nimsoft for the past six years. He is a more than twenty-year veteran of the high-tech world, with extensive expertise in monitoring and systems management software. Prior to Nimsoft, Gary was vice president of sales and marketing at RiverSoft, a provider of advanced network management products,

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 7)

SM: Essentially you are saying the market has now experienced an explosion of images, not all of which convey a unique essence? TM: Yes. A lot of photographers who are above average are giving away their images in order to get a credit line. One of the difficult things with wildlife photography is the proliferation

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