1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Suncoast Capital Group, Coral Gables, Florida

Suncoast Capital Group is an investment firm that deals exclusively in certificates of deposit (CDs). Using a proprietary back-end technology that enables it to handle large volumes and thus offer clients better rates, the company works with with banks, credit unions, and other institutional investors, some of whom need to raise deposits and others of

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Building India’s Amazon: Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal (Part 4)

Sramana: Let’s fast forward to March 2009. How have the relationship with the distributors and the operational mechanics of your business changed? Sachin Bansal: We actually opened another distribution center in Dehli. To our surprise, almost every distributor in India knew about us, so it was not hard to make a new relationship in Dehli.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 1)

In the following interview, Sramana and Steven discuss how supply chain services for Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI) in the automotive and traditional whole goods markets are adopting cloud computing to their advantage.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twenty-ninth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Ira Weiss, who is the faculty director at University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth) and co-manager of Hyde Park Angels,  an angel network that is affiliated with the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: So, not all of your fund investors are based in Montana? Liz: No, five are not. Some are here part of the year, and they really wanted to be  part of this, and that was part of the discussion when we formed the fund. For example, of the 33

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: CionSystems ,Redmond, Washington

By guest author Ravi Bulusu CionSystems offers identity management solutions that provide IT departments in organizations single, centralized federated identity management for the enterprise and different cloud solutions. The company focuses on three main areas: account management (provisioning and de-provisioning of enterprise accounts), managing multiple identities and keeping them in synch, and audit compliance and

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Building India’s Amazon: Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal (Part 3)

Sramana: How much money did you put into acquiring inventory to sell? Sachin Bansal: They had computer systems which maintained inventory of their stock. We received a download of that every day.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Raymond Chan, Tech Coast Angels (Part 7)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Right. Do you see any issues in the angel ecosystem? Is there anything that can be improved? Ray: I think the key thing is, investors like us have to get involved, to educate entrepreneurs. For example, Silicon Valley is the best ecosystem in the whole wide world. And for

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