BigCommerce: How Two Programmers Who Met In A Chat Room Bootstrapped A $10 Mil eCommerce Company – With Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, eCommerce, Marketing, Scaling

Mitchell Harper and his co-founder’s first project was software that made web page creation easy. They priced it at $149, and by selling an average of 20 copies per day, they reached a million dollars in revenue after one year. You’ll hear the clever way they marketed their app in this interview.

You’ll also hear how they built followup products by constantly asking their customers what they should create next. Today, their flagship product is BigCommerce, an ecommerce platform that powers 10,000 online stores.

Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Interspire is a privately owned company which develops content management, shopping cart, knowledge management and email marketing software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide, including fortune 500 companies (Intel, Shell, GE), enterprise organizations (Virgin, Ubisoft, Monster.com) and also thousands of small/medium businesses and digital agencies.

 

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