Ike Kavas is the founder and CEO, with 20 years of document capture, document management, workflow and systems engineer experience. His focus is to guide, innovate and expand the company’s mission of making meaning out of unstructured content. Ike holds a patent on supervised machine learning for document classification and extraction.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I thought I had the greatest idea on earth but the investors didn’t think so. I visited a lot of investors and I got a lot of nos for the business and I had to push through those. But before even I start the business when I came to the US, I had a hundred thousand in my pocket and then being first generation, you have to learn how to adapt fast with the current situation… I found ways around no money and that resulted in bootstrapping the company, building a product that I can sell”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz
- Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life Book by Susan David
Favourite Quote:
“there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way”
Recommended Online Resources:
OpenView blog – insights, actionable advice founder interviews aimed at helping you grow your expansion stage software company
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“The idea is to affect people more and more, that’s the bottom line for entrepreneurs having a company that grows. On a growing company be prepared to give up the control of everything that you do today. As the company grows you will have the specialists that can do the job better than you can just need to give way to them. When it comes to financing there is a million ways to be successful. I did it with bootstrapping for seven years. And some entrepreneurs think that raising money is the only thing and then they give up. Don’t give up there is millions of ways to do it, it is your job to find those.”…[Listen for More]
More About Ike Kavas:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ike Kavas:
- “Finding money from investors is a great way to run a business but not the only way. There are always other ways you just need to be diligently enough to find your way as an entrepreneur”
- “Everything is about the execution. Strategy is important maybe 10% but 90% of business is execution.”
- “You need to be able to adapt to change… Because everything is changing so constantly… This is the world of competition… Everything gets better because there is competition and if you fall asleep, if you don’t adapt, if you don’t change, if you don’t better yourself somebody is going to come and do it for you”
- “if you don’t understand your emotions and then the psychology of other people will not be able to function in society”
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