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236: Vincent Woon – Selling Cloud Based Business Intelligence & Analytics
Category: Business
Duration: 00:53:03
Publish Date: 2018-04-21 19:00:00
Description:

Podcast highlights:

  • 08:31 Vincent Woon's tips and tricks on building cloud base analytics software that is simple to use
  • 36:35 Timing is never perfect when starting a business. Vincent Woon started Holistic Software at the same time he had just become a new father and had a full time job
  • 42:30 What can sales teach you about building a software business? There is a big difference between sincere customers and those who are just being nice. Never count on a customer until the the money hits your bank account

Podcast notes:

  • 00:05 Welcome Vincent Woon to Asia Tech Podcast Stories, hosted by Graham Brown
  • 01:38 All about Holistics Software, an online data management software for businesses
  • 06:28 Why are some online data software like Google Analytics inherently difficult to use?
  • 08:31 Vincent Woon's tips and tricks on building cloud base analytics software that is simple to use
  • 11:50 Large organizations are challenged by daily data overload. Too much data leads to employees becoming unfocused
  • 14:34 Is it realistic to have just one metric to focus on every day or will that remain a pipe dream?
  • 16:45 The metrics measured in Holistics Software and how they impact day to day focus
  • 19:58 The challenge is measuring metrics is keeping things simple - you can end up with too many input variables
  • 25:13 Use promo code 'ATP2018' to try out Vincent's Holistic Software
  • 26:12 The story of how Vincent met his two Vietnamese co-founders
  • 27:30 How does Vietnam consistently produce high level software engineers?
  • 29:40 Vincent's background from working for IBM and French software companies to striking out on his own becoming an entrepreneur
  • 33:32 Why did Vincent build Holistics in a low risk manner by becoming an entrepreneur only after gaining real world experience?
  • 36:35 Timing is never perfect when starting a business. Vincent Woon started Holistic Software at the same time he had just become a new father and had a full time job
  • 42:30 What can sales teach you about building a software business? There is a big difference between sincere customers and those who are just being nice. Never count on a customer until the the money hits your bank account
  • 47:00 "The best time for the customer is never." Vincent Woon's advice on selling software to clients
  • 51:07 A true entrepreneur hustler has sales experience and every start up founder should seek out some form of sales experience
  • 51:53 You can try out Holistics Software with promocode ATP2018 and go to LinkedIn to reach out to Vincent Woon, CEO and Co-founder of Holistics Software
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