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Sramana: How did you gain access to a payment gateway as a new Internet company? Phanindra Sama: I took a banker’s recommendation and accepted personal liability for charge backs. I had to keep a certain amount of money in my account as well. Once we took the site live, we then had to focus on
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: If we could, we’d try to connect the dots and put people in touch with the right partnerships and resources to help them with their businesses. There’s just a finite amount of time. We’ve got a lot on our plate. It’s tough to do. But there’s
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: If a company is out of Washington state, could they still reach out to you? Chris: It’s possible. We’ve worked with some companies from British Columbia and from Oregon, for example. Typically, these companies are either looking to establish a Washington base or have already established
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: You mention private clouds. How do you decide on what to put on the private cloud versus what to procure from the public cloud as part of your cloud strategy? Sanjay: It is a journey. The journey that we are on at EMC is to virtualize
Sramana: How far were you able to bootstrap your company while maintaining your job? Phanindra Sama: The product was completed and ready. To solve this problem, the logical process was to give the software to bus operators.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: At EMC, now that you have this rather large virtualized infrastructure, are you able to charge back the different parts of the company based on their usage? Or is that something that you are planning to do or are interested in doing? Sanjay: Yes, it is
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Chris: Another major difference of the WINGS network is all of our angels come from a medical tech, devices, or biotech background. So, they’re not afraid of and they understand the regulatory challenges. One of the challenges we had with some local angels is that a lot