How To Ensure Success Before Launching – with Dharmesh Shah
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Since Dharmesh Shah is an angel investor, entrepreneur and writer, we covered a lot of ground in this interview. But what I noticed throughout the conversation were techniques for ensuring success before starting. Here are 3 examples:
- When he launched his first company, Dharmesh overcame one of the biggest challenges for a new business by getting the company he used to work for to sell on his behalf.
- Before he launched HubSpot, Dharmesh had a built-in customer-base because of his blogging.
- When startups want to get investment from angels, Dharmesh told us how they could increase their chances of raising money by building relationships with them and their friends before launching.
Dharmesh Shah is an entrepreneur, angel investor and writer. As an entrepreneur, he launched Pyramid Digital Solutions, which he later sold to SunGard, and today he’s the Founder and CEO of HubSpot, a venture-backed software startup that offers an inbound marketing system for small businesses. As an investor, he backed 11 companies, including Venture Hacks. And as a writer, he’s written the book Inbound Marketing and blogs regularly at OnStartups.com.
Andrew: Hey all, I am Andrew Warner, I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious Upstar and by the way, what I mean by that is that I do these interviews for select few, I mean people who know that they can watch professional TV shows. Not just my little operation over here, but instead, are picking and choosing to listen to this time after time because they’re so hungry to build a successful business that they’re going to spend an hour with an entrepreneur, an hour with an investor to find out what they know about building a company. And today, by the way, I’ve got a guy who’s both. So, on the phone with me today, not video, but on the phone with me today, I’ve got a man who according to his website, sold his company for millions of dollars, and I’m going to ask him to clarify that, he invests in startups, and according to my research, it’s 11 startups that he’s invested in up until now. He’s also the founder of HubSpot and HubSpot offers inbound...
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