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CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 6)
Sramana: Early-stage entrepreneurs are always wondering about the transition from an entrepreneur-run business to an outsider-run business. What are your thoughts? Bill Daniel: My first experience with this was Oracle, when it was a small company known as Relational Software Inc. Larry Ellison is legendary, but in those days he was just Larry. I watched
CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 5)
Sramana: How did the transition between Sergient and AllWebLeads happen? Bill Daniel: I was contacted by Ross Garber, one of the founders at Vignette, who had been contacted by two young guys in their twenties who owned AllWebLeads. They were looking to create a board of directors and had created a profitable company via bootstrapping.
CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 4)
Sramana: How long did you stay at Vignette? Bill Daniel: I left Vignette in 2003. I was there for just over five years. At that point, I took some time off. I spent a year working on my golf game. There is something about starting a company from scratch or working with a fledgling company
CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 3)
Sramana: I definitely remember those days. There were a lot of things happening back then! Bill Daniel: Yes! I remember that we were on Triton Drive in Foster City in a one story building that you would think was an industrial manufacturing building. It had a loft and we put two foosball tables up there
CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 2)
Sramana: What did you do after Mozart Systems? Bill Daniel: From there I went on to start two other companies in the Bay Area before I made my way out here to Texas. I have now been here almost 14 years. Mozart Systems was actually sold years after I left when it had around $10
CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Bill Daniel is a serial entrepreneur and the Chief Executive Officer of All Web Leads, an online provider of high quality insurance leads. Prior to joining the company in 2008, Bill was most recently the President and CEO of Surgient, a leading data-center virtualization management software
Acquiring Deadpool Technology to Leapfrog a Services Company into Products: Canara CEO Steve Cotton (Part 7)
Sramana: Bootstrapping a company requires that you run a very tight ship. Can you comment on how you did that and how it impacted team building? Steve Cotton: Every hire that you make has to have an ROI within six months to a year or it does not make sense. The people we brought on
Acquiring Deadpool Technology to Leapfrog a Services Company into Products: Canara CEO Steve Cotton (Part 6)
Sramana: Are you launching new products to have access to increase your TAM? Steve Cotton: We have just announced the introduction of a new product that will be available late in the summer of 2013 called Branch Circuit Monitoring. We believe that will add more to our addressable market. Our market is very large. What