Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott “Always On” around the Globe Tony: So you are talking about creating your own IP – how has that impacted the kind of services you provide? Is this also part of the drive toward what some have said is pushing even more of the services off the CIO’s plate?

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Alan: Another aspect – and this may be more personal to me than it is to Springboard as an organization – is that one of the other major challenges for angel organizations is communicating with entrepreneurs. When you see as many deals as we do here –

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 3)

SM: Why should it feel was wrong if he was not pulling his weight? You don’t get paid to exist. JH: Now as a manager I do not feel that it was the wrong decision, but I did not like the fact that I was involved. Either way, I graduated on a Friday and started

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott Building Competency Tony: How has the relationship with your parent Tata Communications helped you beyond brand recognition? Shirdhar: Given that we have trust at Tata Communications, they would always support our trying to position ourselves higher up the chain.  But I can’t constantly make fresh demands on our parent company

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You mentioned AngelSoft. How do you use AngelSoft? Alan: Very sparingly. We’ll probably cease using it at the end of this year. We’re not particularly fans of proprietary software. We deal with a tremendous amount of confidential information. We use it because a lot of the

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 2)

SM: How did your middle-class background impact you at Pepperdine? Did you feel as though you belonged? JH: I went through stages. At first, I went through an envy stage. I have never told anybody this but hopefully you will understand. I felt like wealthy females always had this look on their face that was

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Labor Arbitrage or Value-Added Services? Tony: So if you look at these businesses overall, what percentage today is value-added services vs. labor arbitrage compared to five years ago, and what do you expect it to be five years from now? David: I think, taking TCTS as example, the first thing

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you talk a little bit about venture firms in Florida? Alan: For the venture firms that work in Florida, that invest in Florida, that means they may be domiciled in the state, but there are also others such as Intersouth,  Aurora, and Noro-Moseley that are

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