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From Y Combinator to Customer Traction and $50 Million in Financing: MemSQL CEO Eric Frenkiel (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: When you raised the $35 million, how many customers did you have? Eric Frenkiel: I don’t recall the exact numbers, but it was around a dozen customers at that point. Sramana Mitra: Were these large companies? What kind of customers are we talking? Eric Frenkiel: They were all logos that anyone would recognize. One of the
From Y Combinator to Customer Traction and $50 Million in Financing: MemSQL CEO Eric Frenkiel (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What is the go-to market strategy? Eric Frenkiel: We started the company with zero code. Since we had that ability to focus on what we wanted to build into the product, we’ve been able to build enterprise-grade features into MemSQL in a very short period of time. Our hurried go-to market strategy is
An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you fund your organization’s work? Marianne: It comes from a combination of membership dues, events and sponsorships. On the ACEF side, it’s a combination of a series of seminars and workshops that we do all over the country and grants from the Kauffman Foundation,
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you hold any events for entrepreneurs? Dave: Actually, I put on a decent-sized 300- to 500-person conference on a quarterly basis. I also run a lot of user groups and events, meetings, and dinners. We’re running one called Warm Gun, a conference about design and
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made? Dave: It’s a little hard to keep track at times, those deals are things that I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year, probably 43, maybe 44 in calendar year 2010. Although the fund’s only been operating for
