TechStars Series: How GrabCAD Built A Thriving Community – with Hardi Meybaum

Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD, Customer Acquisition, European Founder, Hiring, International Founders

How do you build a thriving community of over 194,000 engineers?

Hardi Meybaum is the co-founder of GrabCAD, which has the goal of becoming the “largest mechanical engineering collaboration platform.” I want to find out how he built his community.

This interview is part of my series with entrepreneurs who were funded & helped by TechStars.

Hardi Meybaum

GrabCAD

Hardi Meybaum is the co-founder of GrabCAD, which has the goal of becoming the “largest mechanical engineering collaboration platform.”

 

Andrew: In this interview, you’re going to hear the very entrepreneurial

thing that today’s guest did one week before his first daughter was born.

You’re also going to learn how he got investors for his startup even though

the dude was way outside of Silicon Valley. If you’re going for funding,

if you’re outside Silicon Valley, I want you to specially pay attention to

that section. And you’re going to see how his company turned down customers

and why doing that can help you build a better business too. All that and

so much more coming up. Three messages before we get started.

First, do you need web design work? Go to LaunchTower.com. It’s run by Alex

Champagne, who has helped me with a lot of last minute projects at Mixergy.

Now he’s running a design company at LaunchTower.com.

Second, do you need a lawyer who actually understands the startup...

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