In the recap mode, here’s a list of the top 20 serial entrepreneurs I have spoken with: * Philippe Courtot – a very young 63-year old CEO of Qualys.
I have done numerous interviews with entrepreneurs on this forum. Here’s a list of 10 Web entrepreneur interviews that I think have the most interesting strategy discussions on how each of them are building their companies:
I want to turn the spotlight on serial entrepreneurs, and open a discussion on what drives them, and if you want to become a serial entrepreneur, what can you learn from the lives, careers and choices of other successful serial entrepreneurs.
Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:
SM: Go back to 2004 and trace to 2008 – what were the milestones in terms of traction and bringing the solution to market? GG: When we made the LinkedIn partnership in April 2005 analysts covered that as the first time job searching and social networking were blended. In the fall of 2005, in a
SM: Your goal with SimplyHired is to skip the referral network to the extent it is possible, and to replace it with a combination of services available on the web which SimplyHired brings together for the candidate? GG: Exactly. Over time a person’s social and professional affiliations will come online. People will use those connections
SM: You chose to serve the candidates in your approach, but the money is with the employers. What is the value proposition of your strategy? GG: We recognized that employers would follow. We have tried o since the late summer of 2004 to move in that direction. We brought our service to the market in
SM: In your opinion, from where you sat in the spring of 2004, who were the top technology players serving that market? GG: A natural place to start evaluating that market is to see where the dollars are coming. What is fascinating about the employment market is that besides employers and job seekers, which is