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Aparna Chennapragada

Posted on Saturday, Feb 16th 2008

Aparna is a graduate student at MIT, in a joint degree program between Sloan School of Management and School of Engineering. Previously, she worked in software product development roles at Akamai technologies, a leading Internet content delivery service provider. Her interests include Technology entrepreneurship, India and Venture capital. Building Tech Startups in India: SummaryBuilding Tech

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How to Stop Corporate A.D.D.

Posted on Saturday, Feb 16th 2008

By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author Companies of all sizes and stages are suffering from corporate attention deficit disorder. It shows up as constantly shifting strategies, launching lots of new initiatives without finishing any, changing plans before results can even be measured, and people running around busy doing a lot of tactical things that just aren’t

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 16th 2008

SM: What was your role at PeopleSoft? MG: PeopleSoft was a complete software shop. They had no processes or culture of customer service from an implementation point of view. They did not have a good relationship between people who wrote the software and the people who implemented the software. Initially I started running North America,

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Media Industry Worth Watching in 2008

Posted on Friday, Feb 15th 2008

2007 was a not a pleasant year for the Media Industry. Most of the Media stocks including IAC, Walt Disney, News Corp. and Time Warner have undergone correction between 10% to 40%. Except Walt Disney, all other stocks are trading close to at their 52-week lows. Most of the companies have reported below the Street’s

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Deal Radar 2008: Adap.tv Trying to Tackle the Video Ad Problem

Posted on Friday, Feb 15th 2008

After the success of shopping.com (now owned by eBay), Amir Ashkenazi, stepped into the hairy world of video advertising through his recently founded Adap.tv in Nov 2006. It claims to provide publishers and advertisers the best tool to make video ads more effective without interrupting the streaming flow. [see interview: Cracking the Online Video Monetization

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Gadi Shamia

Posted on Friday, Feb 15th 2008

Gadi Shamia is an accomplished Senior Executive with more than 13 years of software leadership experience, focused on the small and midsize business (SMB) market, working in both large companies and start-ups. Currently Gadi serves as VP & General Manager, SMB at Qualys, an on demand security and compliance management company. Prior to that, Gadi

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Feb 15th 2008

SM: Tell me about your move from EDS to PeopleSoft? MG: In 1999 I was recruited by a headhunter at Spencer Stewart. Craig Conway had become the CEO of PeopleSoft, he had been there for 6 months, and he had a vision of re-tooling the ERP software space and re-tooling the company. One of the

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Deal Radar 2008: Travel Ad Network Executing Flawlessly

Posted on Thursday, Feb 14th 2008

Travel Ad Network (TAN) is the leading vertical ad network focused exclusively on travel. It reaches users across 50 websites including Lonely Planet, Kayak, RandMcNally, Skybus Airlines, Groople, TravelHero, BootsNAll, AreaGuides, HotelsByCity, EuropeForVisitors, AirGorilla, and many others. Top advertisers with TAN include American Express, Vacations to Go, Best Western, Netherlands Tourism, Tourism Australia, etc.

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