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SM: Aside from your on-demand aspect, how else do you differentiate from the consulting firms?
KP: We do not charge on an hourly basis for customer service and the help desk. Our customers call us all the time and ask for help pricing a job – we try to help our customers with those problems. We [...]
Omniture declared their second quarter earnings on July 23. Net loss was $6.5 million or $0.09 per share, compared with $4.1 in the second quarter of 2007. GAAP revenues for the same period were $71.6 million, compared with $63.2 million in the previous quarter and $33.5 million for the same period a year ago. This [...]
Infineon figured at the top of my recent list of 3G iPhone’s Top 5 Component Beneficiaries. It is a major beneficiary with four wins: the digital baseband processor, a UMTS transceiver, a power management chip and a GPS chip. But there is a bigger beneficiary without a single design win in the 3G iPhone: Qualcomm. [...]
SM: What was the competitive landscape like when you started? Besides consultants, was there anyone else in that space at the time?
KP: Even today the competition is fairly scant. Back then there was no one doing it. We were alone in the consumer and enterprise business for a solid three or four years.
During the dotcom heydays, two companies had caught my eye: online diamond jewelry retailer BlueNile and online gift retailer RedEnvelope.
SM: It was easy to raise money in 1999. It was not easy to raise money in 2001. What was your experience raising angel money during that time window?
KP: I have never had a problem raising angel money. It was extremely easy in 1999. We did talk to some venture capitalists, but they did not [...]
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author
Last month, we discussed in detail the various businesses of Infineon and also peeked into its strategy. We noted that Qimonda was the cause of most of its miseries. We also suggested acquisition and growth possibilities for the German company. Against this background, it is time for us to look at [...]
In the recap mode, here are the top seven SaaS startups that I am tracking:
* Qualys – Managed security and compliance; Interview with CEO Philippe Courtot; Forbes Column: The Next VmWare.
