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From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: When did you start United Web? Tomas Gorny: In 2008. Over the years, United Web became an investment vehicle for our and other businesses. What I’m really focused on and really passionate about is the business that we do now – Nextiva. Nextiva technically started its development on the product in 2006. In
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You had web hosting, email, domains, and you had a suite of widgets that people need to build and host a web business. You were doing it all for a flat price at $7.95 a month. Tomas Gorny: That’s correct. The magic was really in the last statement. The control panel and the widgets
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You had $6,000 in the bank and you used your American Express credit line and started a web hosting company. How did that work? Can you talk a bit more about the early journey of that company? Tomas Gorny: I bought two servers. I was very technically oriented, so I installed them and
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 4)
Tomas Gorny: We never went bankrupt. We paid off all the creditors. We filed what is called ABC – assignment for the benefit of creditors. After we filed that, we dissolved the company. In 2001, I was left with no money and was in pretty much the same situation when I came to America. Sramana
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 3)
Tomas Gorny: As a result, while I was building my tech business in the web hosting industry, I was doing whatever it takes – valet car parking, carpet cleaning – to survive. For two years, I lived on $3 a day in terms of food allowance. I even remember days when I didn’t have any
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 2)
Tomas Gorny: When I was living in Germany, I was 17 years old and had learned the language. I decided that the PC industry is growing, so I started a PC distribution company. We were buying different PC components from vendors, assembling them to computers, and then selling them to businesses and individuals. What I started
From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. I see so many people making excuses for why they are not successful – discrimination, fate, luck, all external factors. Read Tomas Gorny’s story. I hope it will give you some perspective and some attitude adjustment that hopefully propels success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with
