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shane evans
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a 100% Virtual Business from Ireland
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Shane Evans is Co-founder of Scrapinghub, now known as Zyte, a virtual team-based business from Ireland. When we spoke in 2016, the company had 5M Euro in revenue, 130 employees in 43 countries and operated 100% virtually. Very interesting view into a different part of
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a 100% Virtual Company from Ireland
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Shane Evans is Co-founder of Scrapinghub, now known as Zyte, a virtual team-based business from Ireland. When we spoke in 2016, the company had 5M Euro in revenue, 130 employees in 43 countries and operated 100% virtually. Very interesting view into a different part of the
Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a 100% Virtual Company from Ireland
Shane Evans is Founder of Scrapinghub, a virtual team-based business from Ireland with 5M Euro in revenue and employing over 130 people. They have employees in 43 countries and operate 100% virtually. Very interesting view into a different part of the world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to hit the $1 million mark? Shane Evans: I think we would have come just under it in 2013. In 2014, we would have been $2 million. Sramana Mitra: In 2013, you were at $1 million revenue. At that point, what was the distribution between professional services
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I know quite a bit about that kind of work because I did a lead generation software company earlier in my career that required lots of scraping and cleaning. It’s quite complicated and it’s very domain-specific. I am very aware of how very complicated this is. Did you launch this with any financing
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What’s the next move? Shane Evans: Let me give a background about what happened at Mydeco so the next move will make a lot more sense. As part of the platform we were trying to build, there was a big e-commerce part. Part of that e-commerce component was we needed some data from
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the story? Shane Evans: I was quite enjoying my time there. It turned into more of a big company. Once again, I found myself yearning for something that was a little bit different. I think it was late 2004 when I quit. During my time there, I had focused on
Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Shane has built a 140-people virtual team-based business from Ireland. Very interesting view into a different part of the world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
