1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Clickfree, Toronto

Clickfree makes and sells automatic digital storage products for consumers that are designed to be user friendly and “less work than a toaster.” The company has benefited greatly from increased consumer awareness of the need for a digital backup strategy, played out in blog postings, how-to articles, and chat rooms across the Internet.

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)

Prior to taking the helm of Armorize, Caleb Sima was co-founder and CTO to SPI Dynamics, the world’s leading and de facto standard for Web application security scanning. After being acquired by HP, Caleb was made HP’s Chief Technologist – Application Security Center, where he helped HP build a SaaS version of HP’s application security

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Catching Up On Readings: From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot

This week’s Entrepreneur Journeys interview is with Jean-Marie Hullot, formerly of NeXT and Apple and the founder of Fotopedia. Jean-Marie recounts his travels through Asia and South America, his work with Steve Jobs, and his vision for Fotopedia. Click on the full article to read the interview and the rest of this week’s posts.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Eric: We view ourselves as unique for a handful of reasons. We have six out of eight entrepreneurs at the fund who actually run companies day to day. I think that is a really good model in terms of keeping us in our mindset as founders. When most of your

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder and Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu Irina: Do you have any interesting stories? Manu: Sure. I met one founder in December 2008. I had my second and third meetings with him in January. The company had not even have been formed yet. It was only a single person or, rather, the founding team

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 7)

Given the huge market size predictions from Gartner, IDC and more, it is but natural that there are bound to be opportunities in cloud for entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions and address the market needs. In the final part of the interview, Sramana and Jose discuss entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud. Jose highlights the fact that Cloud computing is granting small- to medium-sized businesses access to the technological resources they need to compete with the big enterprises; therefore sparking some much needed innovation. By having the same access to data centers, server farms and software platforms, cloud computing is helping to create a fair playing field.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 5)

SM: And how far along is that? RT: Well, the skeleton is there for approval. The workflow engine is integrated inside the private cloud infrastructure. Now, on the public cloud side, the overriding request is clients want to have variability in their billing. That’s what is different about the cloud compared to a traditional hosting

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 7)

SM: What is Fotopedia’s business model? JH: The first step is to build significant traffic. We are not there at this point. We have been operating for one year, and we have learned how to get the community contributing content. Until recently, we did not spend enough energy on learning how to allow people to

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