Making Millions in Alabama: SlimWare Utilities CEO Chris Cope (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When did you start SlimWare Utilities in its current incarnation? Chris Cope: In 2006 Amazon launched the first accessible cloud infrastructure. The cloud has always been around forever, but what was neat was that with them you were only paying for virtual machines and the bandwidth that was actually used. We were able

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Making Millions in Alabama: SlimWare Utilities CEO Chris Cope (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: After you obtained information to determine which products were doing well on the Internet and which ones were failing, how did you use that data? Chris Cope: I used it in several different ways, primarily as an affiliate, and I did pretty well for myself. Sramana Mitra: Did you simply identify the top

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Making Millions in Alabama: SlimWare Utilities CEO Chris Cope (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Where you actually making money on the affiliate programs? Chris Cope: Yes, I was making money. I am not sure the companies were doing all that well in the end. Back then you got paid just for sending traffic. A registered user might be worth a dollar.

Making Millions in Alabama: SlimWare Utilities CEO Chris Cope (Part 1)

Chris Cope is the founder and CEO if SlimWare Utilities, a company that provides cloud-based software to clean, repair, update and maintain personal computers. He is a serial entrepreneur who wrote his first video game when he was 12 years old, and was the founder of Click Ad Equalizer and MP3 Advance. Sramana Mitra: Chris,

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Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 7)

Sramana: Essentially Plimus offers a complete solution for smaller businesses, and in return small companies are going to pay a slightly higher transaction rate. Is that correct? Hagai Tal: Yes. When they become a larger company, they can then evaluate if they are able to accomplish all of the same things we do more efficiently.

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Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 6)

Sramana: Are you saying that you want to build a platform for larger enterprise customers on which they can develop their own API extensions? Hagai Tal: Yes, we want to build a platform like Salesforce where people can build what they need. That is the main target for us. At the same time, we still

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Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 5)

Sramana: If a company like Autodesk has a product for sale in Europe, and I am in the U.S., what is preventing me from just going to the European website to place my order? Hagai Tal: Most people simply go to the website. We are the vendor who supplies e-commerce tools, but companies need to

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Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 4)

Sramana: So, you’re saying that Plimus occupies a unique segment of the e-commerce payments platforms by focusing on subscription or intellectual property transactions? Hagai Tal: There are a lot of other players, but they all offer only a portion of what we do. Companies like Vindicia do subscription management, but they do not touch the

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