If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. The Innovation Management software space is quite crowded. When I spoke to Co-founder Robert Hoehn in 2016, IdeaScale had managed to carve out a niche. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let's start by going to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Robert Hoehn: I am from Northern New York, almost bordering Canada. I actually did Computer Science in high school. I was a pretty lucky kid to have experience in programming at a pretty young age. I went to the University of Vermont and joined their Computer Engineering program. I studied Computer Science and Business. After that, I decided to take a little time off and think about where I wanted to live and what kind of environment I wanted to be in. I toured the country for a while and visited a few cities over the summer. The Pacific