Thought I would talk a little bit about my company Ooploo inc.
This company started after the Nortel / Avaya chapter of my life came to a close in January 2013. Diving into startup life again after gaining 6 years of large enterprise corporate experience gives you a different perspective of business and customers. The larger the customer, larger the sales cycle and the larger the product creep. 80 / 20 rule is never so important.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to go through Lead to Win, an intensive bootcamp for startups, in February 2013 which later helped me secure some government funding from FedDev through a program called Global Start. Along with securing our first “real” corporate customer / partner this really helped facilitate the growth of the company.
Ten months later and Ooploo has grown significantly and is currently offering solutions in the financial and healthcare verticals. We are still very much a startup and bootstrapping as much as we can. It’s such an exciting time as I am forming new partnerships, meeting new customers, getting to travel and making some great new friends. There will be new innovations coming out of Ooploo in the near future. I look forward to sharing them with you.