Sramana Mitra: How did you convince your first couple of customers to go with you?
Omer Artun: They were people whom I helped as a consultant. Once I built up trust with them, I told them I could do what this other vendor was doing for them much cheaper and better. That is how I received my first contract. Then I got several more and after that you have a story to tell, that you have been doing this for a year or two. >>>
Sramana Mitra: What e-commerce systems do they work with?
Omer Artun: This doesn’t matter to us. It is a rest API. Any e-commerce system can pull the data out of it. If you think about the day in a life of a marketer, we are trying to do other things than just starting up recommendations or cluster IDs. >>>
SM: How does the stimulus bill affect you?
GN: The initial stimulus bill ended up dedicating anywhere from $39 billion to $46 billion to the adoption of electronic medical records in the Unites States. Do I like that? Part of me doesn’t. I wish we had just stayed the way we were without external catalysts because we were succeeding. >>>