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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia
Messente CEO Lauri Kinkar takes us into a country that has done amazingly well in developing a technology and startup culture. Fascinating! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What is the background? Lauri Kinkar: I grew up and am based in
Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Estonia has made huge progress in building a startup ecosystem. Can you talk a little bit about what has enabled that? What are the highlights of the ecosystem? Lauri Kinkar: We have to take a few steps back. Back when Estonia regained its independence in the early 90’s, it was a unique situation.
Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How much maturity do you want the project to reach? What is the benchmark that you use before you spin something out? Lauri Kinkar: When the first few enterprise customers with a prominent track record are ready, provided that we understand the reasons why they are ready to pay for that solution and
Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What is the process? Do you identify one problem to work on and then go find a customer with whom to start developing the solution? Lauri Kinkar: We’ve always believed that what you just described is the ideal scenario. If you always ask potential customers what they need, they probably would not come
Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 2)
Lauri Kinkar: Back in 2001, we founded Mobi with a group of other people who were university students at that time. It was a telecommunication company. Over time, we started to go into new areas, services, and new platforms.
Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 1)
Lauri takes us into a country that has done amazingly well in developing a technology and startup culture. Fascinating! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What is the background?
