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Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 11)
SM: You don’t face as much competition in small business either. LD: No, you don’t. There is no competition. That was Eric Dunn’s decision point on the Board. “That alone,” he said, “is an argument for me. We struggled so much in Intuit when we went up market to make the product scale.”
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 10)
SM: How did you go from 2001 with $1M in financing to the scale you are today? Didn’t you have to finance the company further? LD: I basically did not have a life for six years. SM: Didn’t you need more financial resources? LD: When you are cash flow positive, you don’t need any more
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 9)
SM: How do you view your competitive landscape right now? The HR, human capital landscape is moving online and becoming very big as we are penetrating more of the mid-market and small businesses. How do you view the rest of the players in your ecosystem and how do you position? LD: Let’s just look at
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 8)
SM: The “mush” factor in corporations is amazing. LD: That is a beautiful word for it. Now we have products through which you know what people you need in different roles. Now you need to recruit people to fit into those slots, so we built a recruiting product to get them into the right places
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 7)
SM: Who finally funded your dream? LD: David Strohm from Greylock. SM: How did you get to David? LD: He was involved in one of the companies, and he was the most skeptical, and that is why I liked him. I don’t like people you can win over easily. He just sat there and looked
Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors (Part 6)
SM: How did you find this particular company that you ended up acquiring? LD: From a friend who sat next to me in business school. He was at a venture firm, so he knew of all the good companies that simply did not have leaders. SM: Which venture firm was he at? LD: It was
Rolling up an Online Ad Agency Powerhouse: AKQA CEO Tom Bedecarre (Part 1)
Tom Bedecarre is the CEO of AKQA, an award winning, privately held ad agency with roots in San Francisco. Tom provided a fascinating interview, and a really good discussion about the emergence of new media and how it shifts the power balance in the advertising marketplace. As is customary, we begin the interview by learning
Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 1)
Om Malik is a successful writer, reporter and has been entrepreneurial in many ways. He is also one of the pioneers of the blogging phenomena with GigaOm. Om has been a close friend of mine for many years, and was responsible for getting me into blogging. Today, he is one of first bloggers, along with
