Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you think entrepreneurs could do to be more successful? Dave: That’s very specific to the entrepreneur, depending on his or her experience and background. But one of the things I would encourage entrepreneurs to do is find trusted advisors; in particular, find trusted board

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Prashant Sachdev

Prashant Sachdev is the founder of onion.tv, which works toward enhancing the media playback experience by integrating video with range of relevant information. He began his entrepreneurial studies at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India and later completed MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson College with a focus on managing technology-intensive enterprises. He did his undergraduate work in computer engineering from Pune

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 2)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev [In the second part of the interview, Nandini and Prashant continue their discussion of how The Morpheus was started, and Nandini outlines the group’s philosophy.] Nandini: After Seventymm bought Madhouse in 2007, it was a hindsight thought that both Sameer and I had that if there were

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In this context, I want to go back to you said about the expertise of architecting a private cloud and virtualized environment – it just does not exist with a lot of SMEs. PS: I agree with that. It comes down to a definition of what

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Praveen Karoshi

Having spent the past decade amid the Internet transformation and being associated with the global mobile/telecom revolution, Praveen Karoshi finds himself at the intersection of Internet and mobile with unlimited opportunities. In the sphere of emerging-to-emerged markets, where the challenges and growth potential are exhilarating, he has been keeping a bird’s-eye view as a startup

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: ShopSocially, Mountain View/London

Deal Radar, which has covered various aspects of the emerging area of social commerce, looks today at ShopSocially, a shopping recommendation engine and a site where friends can give and get shopping advice. It also has a social commerce platform that retailers can integrate into their own sites to harness the power of social recommendations.

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Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 2)

Sramana: Where did you apply the object-oriented paradigm? Did you go to IT organizations in Chicago-area enterprises? How did you generate business? Bill Loumpouridis: As specialized consultants we tried to align ourselves with some larger companies that were going to market and needed our skill set. Larger companies would then pull us into more deals.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your biggest investment success to date? Dave: In my career? It probably would be SuccessFactors. When I invested in that company, it was a small team. A SaaS business, just a little over $2 million in revenue. I think the valuation was in the

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