What Should You Know About Raising Capital and Starting a Tech Business? With Osa Gaius of Parrot
Release Date: 01/12/2023
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Matt Putra is an experienced financial executive with a long career spent with small businesses and conducting long-term forecasting for ecommerce brands. He is a Fractional CFO for EightX, a company specializing in predicting the pattern, future, and profit for businesses in any industry. Matt has worked with many businesses, including Tru Earth, The Tumeric Co., Lusomé, Community Forward Fund, and New Market Funds. Additionally, he works closely with entrepreneurs to help them establish new businesses. In this episode… The Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) is a metric that many businesses...
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How to Financially Structure Your Ecommerce Business With Matt Putra
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Matt Putra is an experienced financial executive with a long career spent with small businesses and conducting long-term forecasting for ecommerce brands. He is a Fractional CFO for EightX, a company specializing in predicting the pattern, future, and profit for businesses in any industry. Matt has worked with many businesses, including Tru Earth, The Tumeric Co., Lusomé, Community Forward Fund, and New Market Funds. Additionally, he works closely with entrepreneurs to help them establish new businesses. In this episode… Are you an ecommerce entrepreneur struggling to get a handle on...
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Tom Kulzer is the CEO and Founder of AWeber, a company he started in 1998 to guide small businesses in fostering more engaging customer relationships and designing effective email marketing. Tom grew the company from zero to 300,000 clients through his unique take on market strategy and team building. Due to his dedication to building a thriving and unique workplace culture, AWeber has been voted one of Pennsylvania's Best Places to Work 10 years in a row. In this episode… Bootstrapping can be a formidable method of financing a startup. There are many unknowns and hurdles to overcome,...
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Reinis Krumins is the Co-founder of AgencyJR, helping e-commerce businesses scale quickly through their unique product launch formula. They specialize in email marketing for seven and eight-figure brands. AgencyJR is the second marketing service he founded; his first was Sprelf Media in 2018. Reinis is also the Product Director for Frozen Ventures, LLC and has a background in social media graphic design. In this episode… Email marketing can be an afterthought for many online businesses. Most people are familiar with the constant barrage of meaningless emails that wind up costing more than...
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Wealth-Building & Tax Saving Strategies for Ecommerce Store Owners and Entrepreneurs in USA & Canada
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As President of Insogna CPA, Chase Insogna is passionate about helping small businesses and their owners with accounting, tax strategy, and wealth building. Since its inception in 2011, Chase has grown the business to include a team of highly-trained professionals that use tech-savvy solutions to create efficiencies and provide expertly designed and transparent advisory, coaching, planning, and strategy. In this episode… Are you a small business owner who’s focused on growing your business? That’s one crucial aspect of running a business, but how much planning have you put into your...
info_outlineOsayame (Osa) Gaius is a software engineer with extensive experience and is the Founder and CEO of Parrot, an end-to-end payment solution that uses SMS to drive a better checkout experience. Before Parrot, he served as the Vice President of BlackRock and was a senior software engineer for both MailChimp and Luma.
Having grown up in Nigeria, Osa went from having minimal computing exposure to being an ecommerce software development expert. He received his bachelor’s in computer science from the University of West Georgia and worked as a research intern at Texas A&M University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Successfully launching a startup is a daunting task for anyone. Even seasoned entrepreneurs encounter new problems and obstacles when starting a new business. The process is as exciting as it is difficult, so advice is essential to getting it right from the beginning.
Osa Gaius quit his job and started a company, but he needed investors to make it work and take it to the next level. His friends and family initially helped, but he needed to acquire venture capital to explode the business. At the onset, he had to deal with the challenges of the pandemic while pitching his product to investors. Osa found success with his company, Parrot, having run a successful fundraising campaign of over $2 million. Now he shares his knowledge and his experience with you.
In this episode of the Ecommerce Wizards Podcast, Guillaume Le Tual interviews Osa Gaius, the Founder and CEO of Parrot, on launching a successful startup. They break down Osa’s introduction to entrepreneurship, building an MVP, and acquiring free users to fuel growth. They also touch on the best ways to acquire and utilize venture capital after fundraising.