#234: The Journey to $200K MRR and Beyond with Amit Mishra, Co-Founder & CEO of iMocha

Amit Mishra is the Co-Founder and CEO of iMocha, a company providing AI-powered digital skills assessments.

iMocha enables tech hiring managers and learning and development professionals with the ready-to-use, latest, and most comprehensive online skills assessment solution, offering 2000+ skills tests.

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Some of the Topics Covered by Amit Mishra in this Episode

• What iMocha does, how it got started, and some aspects of their customer discovery

• What the product looked like in the early days of iMocha

• Going from $500/year ACV to $30K/year ACV

• How Amit was acquiring customers in the early years for iMocha

• Amit's experience in the Microsoft Accelerator

• Going from $15K MRR to $200K+ MRR

• The importance of focusing on the right customer segment and use case

• How increasing pricing helped the business grow

• Building the 60+ person team at iMocha

• The land and expand strategy

• Why Amit raised $600K in 2020

• How Amit looks at using content to grow revenue for iMocha

• Rebranding from Interview Mocha to iMocha

• How iMocha's live coding platform came about 6 months early

• How Amit and his team are choosing which skills to focus on

• The path for iMocha to $50M ARR in 5 years

• Amit's experience as an entrepreneur so far

• Amit's advice for other entrepreneurs

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