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Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: How do you do that? What’s your algorithm for doing that? Gaurav Rewari: Sometimes, it just comes from within. Sometimes, it’s through talking to people who’re willing to tell you things you don’t want to hear. For us, one of those was, “Make sure we crack this product market fit.” All too often,
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Do you have to deploy any kind of professional services to do that? Gaurav Rewari: Just upfront for that period of three to five weeks. After that, the customer generally becomes self-sufficient unless there are some new modules that they want to start. Sramana Mitra: Each deal is what? Several million dollars? Gaurav
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: IT service desk, from a software point of view, it’s ServiceNow. Now you’re talking about agents. Isn’t that being done by these BPO service providers? Gaurav Rewari: That’s a very good question. It’s still being put into ServiceNow. The need for analytics, I would argue, is even greater when you have outsourced part
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: It has a gigantic budget. Gaurav Rewari: Right. Stepping along the pillars, if you will, of IT service management to IT asset management, to IT project management, these are the building blocks of something called ERP for IT. They were imagining that into existence in the cloud. I felt that not only were they
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to? Gaurav Rewari: That brings us to 2012. Sramana Mitra: That was pretty recently. Gaurav Rewari: Yes, but that startup bug I alluded to earlier hadn’t quite left me. It started biting me quite hard again. Our respective product lines at Oracle were doing really well. They
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You can’t have everything. You have to choose. What year does that bring us up to? Gaurav Rewari: In early 2000, I decided to do another startup in the consumer space. It was a company called FirstRain, named after the Indian monsoon season. I have memories of staring out at torrential rain and
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Gaurav has deep domain expertise in the BI space, something he has leveraged to concept-finance a new venture to the tune of $8.5 million. Read how he is building the company, especially how he has positioned the company. Fast growth businesses only happen if you can
