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Best of Bootstrapping: WeGoLook was Bootstrapped from Oklahoma
If you haven’t already, please study my free Bootstrapping course. How often do you hear of a successful entrepreneurship story out of Oklahoma? Well, meet Robin (Smith) Roberson, Co-founder of WeGoLook. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 7)
Robin Smith: The corporate clients are amazed. A lot of them have to be in meetings over weeks and sometimes months just to have a project completed. They can do it with us, basically, overnight. Everything is geo-tagged. All the metadata includes time and date stamps. It’s all very secure. We’ve gone through our second
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. How big is your company? How many people do you have? Robin Smith: I have over 20,000 agents in our database nationwide. We only use around 65 to 6,800 of those on an ongoing basis, but we do have quite a few people interested in working for us. In my corporate
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is the business model? Robin Smith: We’re basically a mobile technology platform that provides data point retrieval for individuals and enterprise clients. We deliver that data however they need us to. Sramana Mitra: How do you get paid? Robin Smith: Our customer places an order and pays via credit card. Our enterprise
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How did these people find out about your service – that they could join as lookers? Robin Smith: There are national property inspection companies and it wasn’t too far out of the realm of getting that same group of people. I didn’t want to launch with WeGoLook until I had the platform ready
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Let’s go a bit granular here. You started in 2009 you said? Robin Smith: I formed the LLC late 2009. It took about a year to recruit my first group of lookers. I built the platform and my website. It took about a year for me to do all that. It was
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What would the platform do? What was the idea? Robin Smith: The idea behind it was really crowdsourcing. This was even before Uber. Even Dave Berkus calls us as the Uber of inspections. I had this idea to create a platform that would connect agents out in the field. I tried to think of
Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 1)
How often do you hear of a successful entrepreneurship story out of Oklahoma? Well, meet Robin Smith. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Robin Smith: I was born in Oklahoma. I was raised, primarily, on
