HarQen: From $5M In Debt To A Hit Business – with Kelly Fitzsimmons

Kelly Fitzsimmons, HarQen, B2B, Comeback, Mental Game, SaaS (software as a service), System, Women Founders

How does a founder have multiple setbacks and still go on to build a hit business?

Kelly Fitzsimmons once found herself on the hook for $5 million in debt. She did something painful to get out from under it. Today she is the co-founder and CEO of HarQen, whose software makes voice more useful. Among its other applications, HarQen’s technology allows employers to automate phone interviews with prospective employees.

It’s latest product is Symposia, which makes the voice of your conference calls, webinars totally search able.

Kelly Fitzsimmons

HarQen

Kelly Fitzsimmons is the co-founder and CEO of HarQen, whose software makes voice more useful.

 

Andrew: Coming up, have you ever given a personal guarantee as a founder?

Hear the painful thing that happened to today’s guest when she did it and

get some advice on how you should handle it yourself. Also, do you want to

see how to find a hit business? I’m going to ask today’s guest about the

process that she and her co-founder took when they found that the first

version of their company didn’t exactly rock, and how they turned it around

and made it into a business that people are eager to be a part of and eager

to be customers of. All that and so much more, you’re going to want to stay

tuned, coming up.

First, three messages. Who is the lawyer that founders in the Mixergy

audience trust? Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law. Have you seen

what Chris Pritchard posted on my Facebook page? His new company’s

incorporation pages that Scott Edward Walker...

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