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Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take this step by step. You had this conversation with Facebook and it triggered a thought in your mind in 2012. Hannu Verkasalo: Yes. Sramana Mitra: How did you get the company off the ground? You had capital, so you could start it on your own. Hannu Verkasalo: That’s right. I put
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There are lots of lead customers, which is really important for a startup. Hannu Verkasalo: You’re right. Let’s talk about the incident on mobile. Many of these companies including Google and Facebook want to support new innovations and new ideas. In many cases, they use you because they want to bring something new
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How many investors did you have and how much money did you raise? Hannu Verkasalo: We raised $2 million. Sramana Mitra: From investors in Finland? Hannu Verkasalo: Yes, we had two investors from Finland and a couple of angels. I put in quite a bit of money. Knowing what I know now and
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The product idea was based on what you were doing for Nokia and what you wanted to bring for the other mobile operators, right? Hannu Verkasalu: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: This is now the post-iPhone era. Hannu Verkasalu: Yes. Now more and more companies were interested in mobile being a medium for content and
Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 1)
Hannu has done three companies, including the one that he is doing now – Verto Analytics. We love stories of successful entrepreneurs from different parts of the world, and this one, from Finland is a wonderful one! Sramana Mitra: Tell me where you come from, where you were born, raised, and in what kind of
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Moshe Vaknin, CEO of YouAppi (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Help me understand with a use case. Let’s say Uber wants to go global using your technology, what specifically happens? How does the technology help Uber go global? Moshe Vaknin: Let’s say Uber goes to India. Then they’d say, “I’d like to have 300,000 users in the next six months.” With our technology
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Moshe Vaknin, CEO of YouAppi (Part 5)
Moshe Vaknin: In the beginning of 2013, we did a shift. We decided that we wanted to focus on B2B. We didn’t change the core but rather than having an app, we said, “Let’s get to publishers who have a lot of users. Through their content, we’ll recommend to users.” Earlier, the dream was to build my
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Moshe Vaknin, CEO of YouAppi (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: That brings us to 2012? Moshe Vaknin: Yes, to the end of 2011. Then in 2012, I’m still in mobile. I knew that mobile apps is going to be a big market. I knew mobile apps were going to be a part of our lives. It was not easy at that time. I remember