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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $35M, Then Raised $70M
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Teamwork.com Founder CEO Peter Coppinger has led a terrific vertical cloud business from Ireland and now runs a global SaaS company that is kicking ass. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How do you compare with companies like Replicon? Peter Coppinger: I don’t know Replicon. I have to check them out. Sramana Mitra: I haven’t talked to them in a long time, but their pitch is similar to yours. I haven’t tracked them.
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What marketing channels were producing for you? Peter Coppinger: The referral was a nice slow burner that cost us nothing. We did affiliates. We did Google ads. It works,but there’s a point of saturation. It probably worked better years ago. Sramana Mitra: It’s expensive now. Peter Coppinger: The only one making money is
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Was there a section of the website where you had a lot of descriptions and keywords that Google organic was picking up. Peter Coppinger: Nothing intentional. Today, Google has changed it so that the people with the deepest pockets win. You could be listed on page two or three of Google and still
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What is the timeline? You started this in 1999 and grew this to 40 people in three to four years? Peter Coppinger: Yes. We got the idea for Teamwork in 2009. We launched around then, but we kept it as a side project. We really found it difficult to find time to work
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: How long did just the two of your run the agency? Peter Coppinger: We grew the agency to about 40 people over the next few years. We had never ran a proper business and we had no idea what we were doing. How do you do pitches? How do you do pricing? How
Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 1)
Peter has led a terrific vertical cloud business from Ireland and now runs a global SaaS company that is kicking ass. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
