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Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Is the business all in LA now? Olivia Skuza: We have 80 team members today in four offices. A majority of that team is in Los Angeles. We have an office in New York. We have customer service and sales in London. We now have customer service in Australia too. Sramana Mitra: Excellent
Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What’s the next major inflection point in your business? Olivia Skuza: So far, we’ve raised $25 million. We did a $3.6 million seed in 2012. Then we did Series A in 2013 for $7.5 million. New partners joined that one. Then we did an interim round in 2015 and a Series B in late
Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How much of this thesis did you get validated before you went to raise money? What was in the business by the time you went to raise money? Olivia Skuza: We had a prototype that worked. In August of 2011, we used a trade show environment as the first way to validate that
Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What is the process of bringing these people onto your platform? Olivia Skuza: We’re revolutionizing behavior that has been prevalent for a very long time. We’re asking them to work in a digital environment and to upload all their information into our product so that they can use it to work with retailers
Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s focus on the founding of NuORDER. What did you see in the market that led you to do NuORDER? What was the premise of NuORDER at the beginning and what year are we talking? Olivia Skuza: That was 2010. We had the ‘aha’ moment while doing the agency business. Essentially, we were
Woman Entrepreneur Building a Successful, VC Funded Business: Olivia Skuza, CEO of NuORDER (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Olivia has built a powerful B2B e-commerce business that connects wholesalers and retailers in categories like fashion and home furnishings. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
