This is the story of Openera, a company focused on automated filing - and also founded in my home town of Ottawa, Canada. While document management may not be everyone's sweet spot, the story that ...
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1. Did you sign a term sheet at a bar? 1:50 2. What is Openera 5:00 3. What is the problem Openera solves 7:00 4. Why start Openera 9:15 5. Peter’s process for defining his product offering 14:00 6. What did spending 5 weeks in the valley mean for building relationships 16:00 7. How did you come up with the original idea 19:00 8. How different is the idea today versus when you started 23:15 9. Why simplicity rules 26:00 10. How did you find your technical co-founder 28:30 11. How did you find your partners 33:30 12. How do you compete with incumbents moving into your space 37:00 13. What has the fundraising process been like for you 40:00 14. Why go down the funding route instead of finding customers first 45:30 15. How do you deal with the manic swings of being an entrepreneur 47:40 16. Is there anything better than being an entrepreneur in the mobile space? 51:40 17. What would you not do again on your next startup 53:15 18. What is the one thing you would do again on your next startup 54:45 19. People call entrepreneurs crazy – how do you deal with this? 55:45