Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 1)

Therese Tucker is the CEO and founder of BlackLine Systems, an account reconciliation and financial close software provider. Prior to that she served as CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems. Therese was comfortably retired from SunGard – and had two school-age children at home – when she decided to merge her two talents, technology and finance,

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Catching Up On Readings: A Nation Of (Virtual) Shopkeepers

In describing England as “a nation of shopkeepers,” Napoleon meant to highlight that nation’s unpreparedness for war against France. But England’s larger tax base and ability to supply iron, wood, and cloth more efficiently than France proved to be to Napoleon’s disadvantage. Fast forward to the twenty-first century, and we see that the joining of

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Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: Let me ask you a specific question along those lines as a follow-up about education. Education is an area where we’re seeing a lot of interest among entrepreneurs. It’s clear that education is a big problem that needs to be solved by a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma SM: That must be having a huge impact on the IT organization as well, right? You don’t need all these different capabilities. I guess you can dramatically reduce the size of the IT organization with that decision alone.

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 7)

SM: Why did you buy your shares back from Softbank, and why did Softbank allow you to do that? JK: When VCs invest in a business, the have an expectation of a profitable exit. By 2009, Softbank had been invested for five years and we were profitable, but they had not received a return on

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Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: What other programs are you thinking about or incubating within your charter that are going to help this ecosystem that we work with and you work with? Sean: The SBIC program, again, it is a fund of funds. For the most part, it’s

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 4)

This part of the interview covers topics such as standards, integration, ROI.

“Work With Marty Nemko” Radio Interview

Sramana Mitra recently shared some lessons from India on becoming an entrepreneur and discussed her book Vision India 2020 with Marty Nemko on KALW Radio (NPR San Francisco). To hear or download the show, click HERE. Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com and Flipkart.com.