(Early stage) Jon Edvald, founder and CEO of Garden.io on: Evolution of Software Development and How to Raise Your First Million Dollars

Show Notes

• [0:50] - What does Garden.io do?
• [2:16] - How did you go from being technical to becoming an entrepreneur
• [3:45] - How do you balance your desire to be technical with the other aspects of running a business?
• [5:47] - How has software development changed since you started?
• [8:30] - When does it make sense to have an open source offering?
• [14:00] - Is selling to devops different in US vs Europe?
• [15:11] - How did you determine the pricing for your commercial offering?
• [17:03] - How did you raise your first million dollars?
• [19:18] - How did you determine focus in your early stages and what were some of the mistakes made?
• [22:13] - Where do you go for mentorship and advice?
• [23:47] - Challenges and strategies that have worked for you in the current pandemic in terms of growing your business
• [27:04] - Tell us about the latest Garden commercial offering you just launched

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Book recommendation: Inventing the Future