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Michael Bodekaer 17 Jul 2010 | 11:16 pm
Michael Bodekaer was a founder and CTO of Smartlaunch, which makes software for Internet cafes worldwide and IPO'ed in 2005. Michael explains how they initially got traction by, among other thing...
Eric Ries 19 Apr 2010 | 01:29 am
Eric Ries is the founder of The Lean Startup, a methodology that startups can use to get traction. Eric explains the methodology in detail and answers some very specific questions about it.
Patrick McKenzie 6 Apr 2010 | 05:46 pm
Patrick McKenzie is the solo founder of Bingo Card Creator. BCC makes bingo cards for elementary schoolteachers. After achieving traction trough scalable use of SEO and AdWords, Patrick was able to qu...
Todd Vollmer 2 Apr 2010 | 09:54 am
Todd Vollmer has been involved in enterprise software sales for twenty years, the last twelve helping startups define, implement and execute effective sales processes. Todd lays out a comprehensive fr...
Paul English 29 Mar 2010 | 11:41 pm
Paul English is the co-founder of Kayak, the travel search engine. He relates how Kayak got traction, including an early deal with AOL and how they launched with 15K searches/day. Paul also gives advi...
Satish Dharmaraj 17 Mar 2010 | 01:44 am
Satish Dharmaraj is a partner at Redpoint Ventures, a former angel investor and was CEO of Zimbra, which sold to Yahoo ($350M). Satish gives the investor perspective on getting traction and explains h...
Justin Kan 9 Mar 2010 | 07:36 am
Justin Kan is a founder of justin.tv, the place to watch and record live video. Justin.tv started out as a reality show, and before that the founders had a YC-backed calendar startup (kiko). Justin ex...
Garry Tan 4 Mar 2010 | 02:08 am
Garry Tan is a co-founder at posterous, "the dead simple place to post everything." Posterous was part of Y Combinator in the summer of 2008, and immediately got traction after being launched on Techc...
Steve Welch 27 Feb 2010 | 02:28 am
Steve Welch is the author of We Are All Born Entrepreneurs, a partner at Dreamit Ventures, and the founder of Mitos, a biotech company that he sold to Parker Hannifin in 2007. In this interview Steve ...
Jimmy Wales 18 Feb 2010 | 02:39 am
Jimmy Wales is a co-founder of WIkipedia and Wikia. Wikia hosts hundreds of popular Wikipedia-like wikis on specific subjects, e.g. star wars. Jimmy explains how each project got traction over time. H...
