Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: Our general thesis is that there are very few companies that are going to generate value north of $200 million. Most companies are being acquired in the $20 million to $60 million range, and there are great returns to be had there if you’re invested early

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Which are some of the emerging, cutting-edge thinkers from the vendor community who you believe are starting to take the cloud out in altogether new directions? Ten years ago, salesforce.com was the vendor that was taking this movement in a new direction, and it has matured

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: BeyondTrust, Los Angeles, California

Today Deal Radar goes deep into the IT machine to discuss an often overlooked topic: privileged accounts. Many readers will remember the highly publicized hacking of Google last January, which is again in the news following the release of the U.S. diplomatic cables. Let’s take a step back, says BeyondTrust, which creates products for privileged

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 9)

Sramana: How many customers does redBus have today? Phanindra Sama: We sell about 200,000 seats per month at this point. Sramana: How many seats were you selling when you met the journalist? Phanindra Sama: At that time we were selling 10 to 15 seats per month. It was enough to keep our allocations from the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chris Rivera, Co-Founder, WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Chris: Our deal flow seems to be great – as good as or better than we anticipated. As long as we can continue to get good deal flow and increase the number of angels, and there’s good financing [being arranged], the entrepreneurs realize this is an active

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How does Open Angel Forum work? Brian: Jason Calacanis put together a new platform for entrepreneurs to pitch a group of angels without paying to get in front of the them. He was upset by some of the pay-to-present angel networks that had popped up. So,

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Smart Guard Systems, Ahmedabad, India

Deal Radar’s NASSCOM 2010 Emerge 50 coverage continues with Smart Guard Systems, an Ahmedabad, India–based company that has developed high-definition Internet protocol (IP) surveillance cameras with triple codecs (devices or programs capable of coding and decoding digital streams or signals) using H.264, MPEG4, and MJPEG technologies. It is the subsidiary of eInfochips Ltd, which provides

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: The next topic that I would like to bring up in this discussion is security. What is your perspective about security in the cloud? Sanjay: Security has always been on the top of CIOs’ minds. It will continue to be the top priority and needs to

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