If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. When we spoke in 2015, he was using a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. When we spoke in 2015, he was using a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of
If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course. Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm, is a Turkish entrepreneur who bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. He used a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born,
Sramana Mitra: Were you seeing the same kind of conversion levels from free to premium? Aytekin Tank: I can’t actually recall the numbers right now. Sramana Mitra: This is a very big question. Whenever people are doing freemium products, it’s a question that we ask. It’s something that people are trying to understand. What are
Sramana Mitra: Did the market accept that you had a better product? Aytekin Tank: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Who were the competitors that you faced at that point? Aytekin Tank: JotForm came out in February 2006. Before that, there were many forms products. All these products had old interfaces. Most of them are not very popular
Sramana Mitra: What was the revenue level when you quit your job and went full-time with the business? Aytekin Tank: It was a little higher than my salary, but it wasn’t too high. Sramana Mitra: I can’t gauge from that. What are we talking? Are we talking $10,000 a month? Aytekin Tank: It was less
If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course. Aytekin is a Turkish entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. He has used a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what