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College Bootstrapping Buddies: Grasshopper Cofounders Siamak Taghaddos And David Hauser (Part 1)
Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser are both serial entreprenuers and co-founders of Grasshopper, which offers advanced phone capabilites to small businesses. Siamak oversees the strategic direction of Grasshopper and serves as the company’s brand visionary while David oversees the strategic direction and operations of Grasshopper and serves as the company’s technology visionary. They met as students
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 7)
SM: How do you conduct sales? SW: We primarily sell via telesales. SM: Are you able to sell to the enterprise accounts that way as well? SW: We do go visit them frequently. That is not a huge deal for us because we are organized by region.
Vision India 2020 Book Review: Atul Kapur, TiE
Atul Kapur is the President of TiE Rajasthan. TiE is the world’s largest organization fostering entrepreneurship. Here is his review: “Vision India 2020 is a marvel. It is a must for anyone who has ever thought about entrepreneurship in any form and an absolute must for anyone who has not. As the President of TiE Rajasthan,
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 6)
SM: Essentially you are simplifying the detailed tactics of auction management and allowing companies to just focus on liquidating inventory? SW: We do. By packaging strategies which we can deliver as packages which enterprises can pull off the shelf, we allow the market to think about strategy versus worry about the detailed tactics of each
Vision India 2020 Book Review: Dr. Sridhar Mitta
Dr. Sridhar Mitta is the Managing Director and Founder of NextWealth Entrepreneurs Private Limited and the Managing Director of e4e.com India. He was the first employee at Wipro and during his tenure as Chief Technology Officer and President of Wipro’s Global R&D, it became the highest valued company in India. Dr. Mitta is also a Trustee
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 5)
SM: In 2001 you were working with a handful of retailers, advising them on various channels. Did you have a product in place? SW: From 2001 to 2003, the bulk of what we did was helping folks to sell on eBay. It was going well, but we saw some clouds on the horizon. One year
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 4)
SM: When you realized that large enterprises were willing to sell on eBay, what impact did that have on your strategy? SW: We decided to rethink our approach. We took a very small business application and stripped it down to the metal. We kept the architecture that interfaced with eBay that managed and scheduled auctions.
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 3)
SM: How did you fund the AuctionRover.com? Did you bootstrap that as well? SW: We funded ourselves for a long time and eventually raised venture capital to try to sustain marketing as well as to scale faster.