By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: At what stage of a company’s development do you usually invest? Alan: Post-revenue. To be a little bit more precise, it’s post-revenue but probably before they have a sufficient customer base to interest the venture funds. Venture funds look at companies at various stages but tend,
SM: What role did your mom play during that time? JH: Two things happened. Emma was born with a birth defect. She had a cleft in her soft pallet that they did not detect in the ultrasound. We found that out the day after she was born. Kevin went into action mode, and he was
By guest author Tony Scott I recently interviewed Vivek Chopra, one of the early employees of Wipro, former head of IBM’s Daksh services business in India, and now president of CSC’s India operations. Vivek has a long and deep history in the IT industry in India and in the global outsourcing and off-shoring arena. His
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Alan: In our valuation, we generally ignore almost all the analytical things like discounted cash flows and those types of approaches and simply look at exit – and our expectation of exit is never accurate, of course – to try and figure what kind of internal rate
For entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, finance, and all aspects of a startup venture, this free online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, July 29, 2010, starting two hours earlier than usual: 9 a.m. EDT / 6 a.m. PDT / 6:30 p.m. IST / 9 p.m. Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong
Over the past few weeks, I have been speaking with a series of thought leaders in cloud computing. We will soon be publishing these in-depth interviews. Let me share a few thoughts with you based on what I have heard thus far across various conversations.
SM: How many paid events versus free events does Eventbrite do in a year? JH: Last year we did 46,000 paid events and 77,000 free events. We hope to grow both numbers. People have asked why we do not charge for free events, but we have always had a gut feeling that it is very
By guest author Tony Scott Human Capital Challenges and the Future Tony: So if you look at this in terms of your the core challenges for the future and what’s going to keep you differentiated and keep you on the top, there are going to be technology challenges that we are going to assume you