By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev
After a few hiccups, it was great to finally meet Indus Khaitan, partner at The Morpheus, an incubator out of India, face-to-face over lunch. We were talking to Khaitan as part of a new series, an exploration of how business incubators are doing their part in advancing the cause of entrepreneurship. Read the full article »
CrowdEngineering is the developer of CrowdForce, a “business process crowdsourcing” SaaS platform, and of solutions to enable companies to crowdsource customer service, with expert customers supporting others. One of the major aims is to cut the amount of money companies spend on customer service. Read the full article »
Hireplug is a SaaS recruitment technology company whose products are designed to help companies to recruit talented candidates from employees’ social networks and boost employee referrals in the process. Hireplug has two components – hireplug.com and the Facebook app We Are Hiring. Read the full article »
By guest author Ravi Bulusu
CionSystems offers identity management solutions that provide IT departments in organizations single, centralized federated identity management for the enterprise and different cloud solutions. The company focuses on three main areas: account management (provisioning and de-provisioning of enterprise accounts), managing multiple identities and keeping them in synch, and audit compliance and generation of required reports. Read the full article »
Standing Cloud is an application deployment and management platform for the cloud and can be used to build websites and webapps. The platform is built in Java and is currently deployed on Rackspace and Amazon EC2 cloud servers. Further, the company offers more than sixty open-source applications that users may test-drive or install for permanent operation. It monitors and backs up applications and aims to offer seamless portability from one cloud service to another, ensuring that there is never any downtime by giving control back to the user. Read the full article »
In a new twist on the hyper-local and “daily deals” trends, Off The Quad combines a daily lifestyle, events, and entertainment e-newsletter accompanied by local specials for students at several U.S. universities. It has just launched in time for the fall semester. Read the full article »
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Kumar
MyOnlineToolbox.com, created by ServusXchange LLC, is both a business SaaS for home remodeling contractors and a Web 3.0 collaborative platform that connects contractors to each other and to homeowners, and gives home improvement product vendors (e.g., the Lowe’s and Home Depots of the world) a targeted way to reach both homeowners and remodeling contractors at the time a decision about remodeling is being made. Read the full article »
I wish you all a happy 2010, dear readers!
I was reflecting back on 2009, and thinking what would be a good synthesis of the work I have been doing, and how I might succinctly summarize a New Year’s resolution for myself. Here is what I have come up with: Read the full article »
