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Ian Ippolito Serial tech entrepreneur. Former CEO of vWorker.
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Winner of numerous awards including Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Most Innovative Companies”, Inc. 5000 “Fastest growing companies in the U.S. award” 4 yrs. in a row. Interviewed by Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Week, CBS News, FOX News and many more.
Recently featured in entrepreneur magazine for pivot from Planet Source Code to vWorker: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235503
More information at: http://www.ianippolito.com/ and…
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Entrepreneurship
Lean Startups
Tech startups and entrepreneurship
Bootstrapping your business
Project Management
Business Strategy
Team Leadership
Mergers
IT Outsourcing
Member since March 2013
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II$4.17/min per minute(32)Bootstrapping Your BusinessIan Ippolito • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaCreated 12 years ago in Funding / OtherI bootstrapped vWorker.com from a 2 person company with no revenues (running out of an extra bedroom in my house) to $11.1 million in revenues, 15 employees and numerous interviews in media such as the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Week, CBS News, FOX News, and more. I also successfully exited vWorker via a multi-million dollar sale to Freelancer.com. In addition, I've also bootstrapped other tech companies such as PlanetSourceCode.com and Exhedra Solutions Inc.. I'm a strong believer in many of the strategies outlined in "Crossing the Chasm" and "The Lean Startup", and credit both (especially CTC) as the catalyst for much of my own success. I'd be happy to advise you on strategies and/or tactics to maximize your own bootstrapped business.Ian Ippolito Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area(32)
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II$4.17/min per minute(32)Exiting Your BusinessIan Ippolito • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaCreated 12 years ago in Business / Getting StartedI sold vWorker.com to a competitor for a price in the $ millions (can't disclose more information on price due to non-disclosure). I'd be happy to advise you on the best way to maximize the sale of your business or best position your business for a potential sale.Ian Ippolito Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area(32)
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II$4.17/min per minute(32)Creating and Running a Successful Tech BusinessIan Ippolito • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaCreated 12 years ago in Business / Getting StartedI created and ran Rent a Coder / vWorker and it was named one of the "100 Smartest, Most Innovative, Hands-down Brilliant Companies on our Radar" by Entrepreneur Magazine. It was also featured in numerous tech magazines and media such as Fast Company, TechCrunch, Software Development Times and many others. Other tech businesses I've created have received numerous awards and honors including the Planet People’s Choice Award, Microsoft Web Men Talking Award, Starting Point Hot Site, PC Talk Shareware Product of the Year, Wugnet Superior Shareware Award, File Farm Cream of the Crop Award, ZD Net Editor Choice Award and many more. In addition to advising you on maximizing the business aspects of your tech venture, I'm also a software developer and can advise you on the technical merits and challenges of your current software strategies.Ian Ippolito Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area(32)
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II$4.17/min per minute(32)IT OutsourcingIan Ippolito • Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaCreated 11 years ago in Business / Getting StartedAs the founder and former CEO of vWorker.com, I oversaw $131 million in IT/software outsourcing. I can design an outsourcing process for your business (whether big or small) that will drive it forward like never before. If you have an existing outsourcing process that you are not happy with, I can fix it for you. Sadly, only 32% of outsourcing projects succeed (are on time, on budget and per the spec). My techniques achieved an 89%+ complete success rate at vWorker.com (an outsourcing marketplace later acquired by Freelancer.com).Ian Ippolito Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area(32)
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Very informative conversaton. Thanks Ian!
Source: Clarity David Gelb Dec 22, 2020TV
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Ian is awesome. It was a great call! Will call him again!
Source: Clarity Anna Bastian Apr 26, 2020RS
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Excellent 1 hour convo. Ian took the time to listen to the situation I was in and carefully guided me through every option I had on the table. Already scheduled my second meeting with him soon as I got off the phone.
Source: Clarity Will Abbod Jan 13, 2018AT
I had a great call with Ian. He has a lot of insight in business, since he has successfully done it before. He faced similar problems and challenges I am facing now, so it was really interesting and helpful to find out how he solved them. I am hoping to talk more to him in future.
Source: Clarity Alex T Feb 14, 2017OR
Ian was a pleasure to speak with and offered some great honest feedback.
Source: Clarity Omar Rezec Jul 30, 2016
Entrepreneurship
Lean Startups
Tech startups and entrepreneurship
Bootstrapping your business
Project Management
Business Strategy
Team Leadership
Mergers
IT Outsourcing
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