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Serial Entrepreneur Building a Luxury Business: Trevor Traina, CEO of IfOnly (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: It’s so hard to get that timing right, isn’t it? Trevor Traina: It’s hard to get the timing perfect, but I find that if you really listen to your inner voice and talk to other people, you can pretty much figure out which spaces are important and growing and which spaces aren’t. I
Building Large Scale Enterprise Software Companies: Louis Tetu, Founder of Taleo, CEO of Coveo (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: There are a lot more hubs that have developed where interesting companies are built. You probably know Greg Gianforte who had built up a very interesting unorthodox place like Montana into a very nice technology destination. Louis Tetu: Technology is ubiquitous. Regardless of where we are, we all have the challenge of distributed
Building Large Scale Enterprise Software Companies: Louis Tetu, Founder of Taleo, CEO of Coveo (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: How long did you stay at Baan? Louis Tetu: I stayed at Baan until 1998. The dynamics of Baan at that time, without going into too much detail, had changed quite a bit. Several of us left. Several started other companies. I was 34 years old. I was doing some investments in multiple
Building Large Scale Enterprise Software Companies: Louis Tetu, Founder of Taleo, CEO of Coveo (Part 1)
This interview gives us an opportunity to speak with a seasoned enterprise software entrepreneur who has founded and scaled a number of companies, including Taleo that went public, and was eventually acquired by Oracle for $1.9 billion. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you
Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 7)
Sramana: In terms of completing the story, bringing us up to 2014, there are few interesting questions I would like to ask. What are some of the other major strategic moves that you made? Brian Requarth: Let me summarize one thing, say financing. I organized the financing in several buckets. After pooling from friends and family, in the first
Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 6)
Sramana: By the time he invested in your business, had he already sold the business in England? Brian Requarth: Yes, he already had an exit in 2007, three weeks before the financial crisis. He was 27 years old. He sold it for a lot of money and when he came down to Colombia, I told him
Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 5)
Sramana: Tell me more about financing, what was the financing strategy that you followed in the company? Brian Requarth: We decided to bootstrap for a long time. Sramana: How long did you bootstrap? Brian Requarth: We started in 2007. We didn’t have cash flow to support the expansion to Brazil in 2009. In 2010, my family invested a little
Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 4)
Sramana: How long did you do a critical mass of a particular listing such that the marketplace on the other side would become interesting? Brian Requarth: During that time, we didn’t have enough listings from customers that we were offering free trials to. So we actually built a robot to go out and get the listings
