Most people don’t care much about where the dash lighting, door lighting and seat belt sensors in their cars are manufactured. They only care that these things work properly. When people cross the street every day, they don’t worry about how the crosswalk signals were made. Again, they only care that these things work properly. Well, the people who make the primary components that control seat belt sensors and cross walk signals among other things want these things to work properly, too.
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, EE Technologies is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider that produces electronic circuit boards and electromechanical assemblies that go into final products like cars, ultrasound machines, slot machines, large construction equipment, food processing equipment, safety traffic equipment, and physics experiment classroom equipment. The company develops, manufactures, and ships its products globally through its facilities in Nevada and Mexico. Read the full article »
According to Gartner, the firewall/VPN market is estimated to be worth $5.9 billion in 2010, reporting 10% growth over the previous year’s $4.4 billion in revenues. Gartner estimates revenues for 2011 at $6.3 billion. In their recent Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, Gartner identified Palo Alto Networks as a leading player.
Sramana: How did you find the animator who has done your commercials?
Sean Broihier: l lived in New York for a couple of years. I know a few people who run Internet-related businesses in New York. He did some animation work for them, and I saw it and loved it. I reached out to him in the middle of last year and asked him to do a project for me. Read the full article »
On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, Sramana Mitra will be participating in several events for entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India. In the afternoon, Citrix will be hosting three roundtable sessions where 15 entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to Sramana for immediate feedback and guidance. In the evening, OpenCoffeeClub Bangalore will be hosting a debate and dinner event with Sramana in partnership with BEMUG and NASSCOM. Register here. Read the full article »
Sramana: In 2009 you did $1 million in revenue. How have you ramped since then?
Sean Broihier: We crossed $5 million in revenue just two years later.
Sramana: How have you built the business from a team perspective? How many employees do you have, and what functions do they serve?
Sean Broihier: The entire company has three people on payroll: me and two individuals who cover customer service and technical support. Read the full article »
As I wrote in a piece earlier, as a part of technology evolution, software development has evolved and matured a lot, and the present trends show that there is going to be a paradigm shift in the developers’ roles. The question is: are you ready yet?
With Web 3.0, the exponential increase of Internet-enabled mobile devices, and adoption of cloud computing technologies, an increasing number of applications are being pushed on the Web. In the future, the Web will be considered the most important medium for any kind of communication, commerce, and context-driven collaboration and for use of any kind of automated services (the consumption part of IT services). Web 3.0, mobile technologies, and cloud computing will together evolve as complementary trends that support each other’s growth. Read the full article »
Sramana: You rely on search engine optimization to provide a supply of customers through organic search. You rely on word of mouth to entice artists and photographers to sell their work through your site.
Sean Broihier: I designed the entire site to be fully automated. It gives artists the sales and marketing tools they need to be successful. By doing so, the artists become a sales and marketing force not only for their own artwork but for FineArtAmerica as well. I built a capability that I would compare to ConstantContact into FineArtAmerica. It allows the artists to create attractive HTML newsletters through FineArtAmerica. Read the full article »
On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, Sramana Mitra will be participating in several events for entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India. In the afternoon, Citrix will be hosting three roundtable sessions where 15 entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to Sramana for immediate feedback and guidance. In the evening, OpenCoffeeClub Bangalore will be hosting a debate and dinner event with Sramana in partnership with BEMUG and NASSCOM. Register Here.
If you are a serious entrepreneur in Bangalore, please register to “pitch” at one of the roundtable sessions listed below. Up to 45 others can register to “attend” to watch and learn. There will be a break in between roundtables for coffee and networking.
