You have read many of my interviews on this blog. Here’s a synthesis of some of the case studies I have done, in an interview format. These differ slightly from the series that I have titled Role Model Interviews, since in this series, I go into the company and its strategy, market, financing, etc. in more detail, and focus somewhat less on the personal history of the entrepreneur. Nonetheless, these stories are just as enlightening as the others.
This series will continue, and I hope you will continue to benefit from the experience of other entrepreneurs who are in the midst of building exciting new businesses.
Meanwhile, here’s an exercise that you can assign yourself. Take one or more of the above cases, and “dissect” it, using the “Clarify your Story” questions, and see what you learn from the process! [If you’re doing an Enterprise/SME facing venture, use this worksheet instead.]
- Neocase: A SME-SaaS Case Study
- Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject
- Expertise Location
- TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping
- Wize up on what to buy
- Retrevo’s Vipin Jain on Vertical Search
- Retrevo’s Vertical Search: Before and After
- Salesforce.com’s Incubator: René Bonvanie
- Portaga’s TripSync: Simplifying Business Travel
- Cracking the Online Video Monetization Nut: Adap.tv CEO Amir Ashkenazi
- Venture Capital for MicroFinance: Chris Brookfield
- Web 3.0 & Group Travel: Groople CEO Mike Stacy
- Narayan Murthy’s Speech at NYU
- Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster
- Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu
- Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins
- Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin
- Jim Satloff & Neal Goldman’s AI Engine, Inform
- Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch
- Concur CEO Steve Singh
- Innovation in Sales Prospecting: InsideView CEO Umberto Milletti
- Sharat Sharan’s On24: Lead Generation Through WebCasting
- Yaniv Ben-Saadon, CEO of FixYa: Using the Social Web for Technical Support
- TeleWebSales: A Methodology Discussion with Anneke Seley
- Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix and Vertical Search
- Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger
- Making SMEs Run Smoothly: René Lacerte’s Cashview
- Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on ModelN
- eBay of Latin America: Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin
- Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson
- Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire
- Stardoll for Little Girls: Mattias Miksche
- Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital
- Lars Dalgaard and his Success Factors
- Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold
- Education & Technology: Now Is the Time - HotChalk CEO Edward Fields
- OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf
- Your Virtual Travel Concierge Has Arrived : Mobissimo CEO Beatrice Tarka
- Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani
- Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber
- Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale
- Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini
- Catching Up on Readings
- Vertical Travel Search Engine Kayak CEO Steve Hafner
- Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi
- Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin
- Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse : Glam Media CEO Samir Arora
- Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson
- Urging Authors to be Entrepreneurs: iUniverse CEO Kevin Weiss
- Journey of a Child Entrepreneur: Scott Wainner
- Pioneering Data On-Demand: Salary.com CEO and Serial Entrepreneur Kent Plunkett
- The Montana Mogul: RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte
- Luminus Devices Founder and Chief Technology Officer Alexei Erchak
- British Brothers: ScanSafe Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey
- British Brothers: Scansafe Founders Roy and Eldar Tuvey
- Building Indian Mobile Banking: mChek CEO Sanjay Swamy
- More Bootstrapping: VirtualTourist.com Co-Founder J.R. Johnson
- How Rafat Ali Found a Job
- From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix
- Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly
- Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse
- Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen
- Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh
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