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Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What apps are getting you in the door at the enterprises? Beerud Sheth: I think sales usually is the biggest because these are decentralized teams. Real-time information has a huge impact on sales performance. If they are behind target, they can react to it in real-time. Sramana Mitra; Who’s buying in the sales
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: These are large enterprise deals essentially. Beerud Sheth: Yes and no. They are large enterprises but selling to them is quite easy because we designed the product to be very simple. The app is a freemium product available in the app store and in the cloud. You just download and can get started in
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me about this new product. Beerud Sheth: We’ve been working on it for a year. It’s been in beta for a few months and we’re launching it right now. We’re very excited about it because I think it brings some very clever ideas to the table. Just stepping back, with the rise
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Up till what point were you operationally involved? Beerud Sheth: I was there until 2005, or about seven years in the company. In 2001, we started this enterprise software and we sold it in 2007. While the company was heavily focused on the enterprise side, I was a little less interested in that part.
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The movement right now is very much in favor of Elance. oDesk is more our platform but it’s the same concept. The only way I can run the company is because of what you’ve invented. However, I have always been a bit early in things. I did a fashion company in 1999. That
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What in your background made you think about Elance? Beerud Sheth: I think it’s actually connecting a lot of dots for me. Sramana Mitra: It’s always easy to connect dots when you’re looking back. Beerud Sheth: We actually approached it that way. As an Indian, you know that there are millions of talented
Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 1)
Beerud Sheth founded Elance back in 1998. At the time, the concept was new and path breaking. Today, with freelancing becoming a gigantic part of the global workplace, the company is playing a massive role in matching businesses with service providers. You can also read our interview with Fabio Rosati on Elance’s evolution. Today, Beerud
