Bardia Housman is an Australian entrepreneur who recently completed his second successful exit, selling Business Catalyst (makers of e-commerce software suite GoodBarry) to Adobe Systems. Australian specialist recruitment and M&A outfit MitchellLake captured this candid interview at the South Food+Wine Bar in San Francisco last month.
GoodBarry is a part American, part Australian company that provides tools that help web designers set up online businesses for their clients with minimal cost and effort and no programming skills required, combining website content management, e-commerce features, e-mail marketing, business analytics and basic CRM tools into one system.
This isn’t the first time Bardia Housman has sold a company. In 1997, he co-founded Start (start.com.au), Australia’s first free e-mail service provider, which in two years became the largest trafficked website in Australia as measured by Hitwise. In December 1999, Start was acquired Looksmart.
James Tuckerman Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thanks Erik. We’re testing the meta tag and added it over the weekend (part of our preparations for the re-launch of our website in February). 240 on a 4 minute post is dopey. We’ve just extended it to 600. However, that doesn’t resolve what happens when we post a 20 minute post. If you know of a way to add the code to category pages only (and avoid our Anthill TV category), keen to hear your feedback.
JT
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