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Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 7)
Harman Singh: I’m a fundamental believer that this is going to go a long way. No matter how much I have in the business, it’s the reputation that’s going to be there forever—not the exit. That was the gist of the whole thing. We are where we are and the investors are happy. Sramana Mitra:
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How much were you charging? Harman Singh: On an average, $250 per educator per year. In those days, it was about $150. Sramana Mitra: It was a per educator pricing? Harman Singh: Yes. Sramana Mitra: When you worked the test prep academy, were they buying for multiple educators? What would a test prep
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t know if you’ve read it, we’ve released a book called Bootstrapping Using Services where we deal with this topic extensively. We have companies that have gone up to $25 million in revenue using bootstrapping using services. This is a very viable strategy. However, you have to do it right. Harman Singh:
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: The angels invested on what thesis? Typically, investors look for investment thesis. What was the investment thesis? Harman Singh: The thesis was that educators want to be connected to students over the Internet. That thesis never changed. The business model was unknown, but this thesis hasn’t changed. It wasn’t about B2B or B2C.
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 3)
Sraman Mitra: In those four years, what kind of revenues were you pulling? How many people did you have? What was the scale of the business that you had built? Harman Singh: We reached about a couple of million dollars in revenue. Sramana Mitra: How many people did you have? Harman Singh: We had about
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What were the specs that they wanted? Harman Singh: There was a technology called Smile technology for education programs that wanted to deliver video-based along with some other content. These days, people would not know what that is. But in those days, it was really hot. We worked with professors and discuss what
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Harman Singh has put up a heroic effort to build a global education SaaS company from Chandigarh, India. Now, many years since his journey began, the company has started finding its stride. As the cliché goes, it’s a marathon, not a sprint! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at
Deal Radar 2008: WiZiQ
I spoke at length this morning at my INSEAD Global Entrepreneurship Forum talk about entrepreneurial opportunities in the educational technology space. Today’s Deal Radar post focuses on WiZiQ, an online tutoring technology startup that offers a learning center and an online collaboration tool for teachers and students for a wide range of subjects and grades. The
