Archive for June, 2009
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #7 - Naveed Lalani of Piryx
Naveed Lalani is a Founder and the CXO of Piryx. Piryx is an Austin startup that offers services for political, non-profit, and government organizations. They have tools for tracking campaign contributions, fundraising, paperwork, and compliance. Piryx started as a contract firm doing work for local political campaigns. I have often read it is not good to start a product company by self funding through contracting because you get pulled into supporting and doing work for your clients too often. However, it seems to have been a perfect fit for Piryx, probably because all of their clients were in their target market.
Naveed is also involved with Texas Ventures, a UT organization that promotes student entrepreneurship. If you visit enough Austin startup events you will eventually run into him. His specialty is experience design. If you have a design problem you are wrestling through maybe you should drop him a line.
Enjoy the interview. The sound is a little low so you may need to up your volume.
