Bullhorn: Is Your Business Idea Genius? (Or Does It Suck?) – with Art Papas

Art Papas, Bullhorn, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, System

How does a founder fix a business that just will not take off?

Art Papas is the founder of Bullhorn, Inc., which makes software for the staffing and recruiting industry. Because of his software, a recruiter can know how many job candidates have blogging experience, get alerts to follow up with each candidate, and know who was rude on a phone call that took place months before.

That’s just one small example of what his software can do. I invited him here to tell the story of how he built up his business.

Art Papas

Bullhorn

Art Papas is the founder of Bullhorn, Inc., which makes software for the staffing and recruiting industry.

 

Andrew: Coming up, want to know the best way to come up with revenue-generating ideas? I mean, ideas people are going to be dying, eager for you to build so that they could give you money? Well, we’ve heard it several times in my interviews, but I don’t know if it’s ever been told, ever been explained so well as this story that today’s guest is going to tell you. Listen for the story about the guy who’s like Tony Soprano who yells at today’s guest because I think that might be the best part of this interview.

Also, I know many of you think that I talk too much about revenue. If that is you, if you want to know about the other stuff, the other part of life, listen to the penultimate–that’s a word I’m proud to know–the penultimate section of this interview where we talk about, what’s it called? Here, let me look at my notes. The Career Collaborative. All that and so much more. Really good interview coming...

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