Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: We’ve shared a lot of our interesting deals with the super angel or micro cap funds up in Silicon Valley and New York. We’ve been able to get them to co-invest with us on Southern California opportunities because I think they trust us and know that

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 6)

Sramana: Did you keep your jobs the entire time? Phanindra Sama: Yes, we did keep our jobs. One member of our team did the majority of the work developing the technology. Randomly he stopped going to the office because he was so obsessed with building the software.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 1)

In the latest interview of our series ‘Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing’, Sramana talks to Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC. She uncovers additional aspects related to people and process evolution in large enterprises such as EMC, as they journey into the cloud. Sanjay shares his insights on how EMC is using their own core technologies to tier, consolidate and virtualize for attaining business agility that cloud promises.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chris Rivera, Co-Founder, WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-second interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Chris Rivera, co-founder of WINGS, the Washington Medical Technology Angel Network. Based in Seattle, the group invests in medical devices, diagnostics and healthcare IT, primarily in the state of Washington and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Brian Garrett, who co-founded with a partner Crosscut Ventures, a Los Angeles–based seed stage venture capital firm in 2008. They invest purely in  digital media, such as social, mobile, gaming, infrastructure,

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 5)

Sramana: What was the next step in the development of redBus? Phanindra Sama: We split up our work. When it came to creating the technology, we realized that none of us knew the technology. We did not know databases, Java, or any of the core aspects of building a Web application.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers in the United States and my American readers abroad; enjoy this day with your friends and families. For those who want to learn more about this holiday, the website of Plimoth Plantation, a museum and research center with exhibits on 17th-century colonists and the Wampanoag tribe, has a

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 4)

Sramana: After you had talked with bus operators and travel agents, what was your next step? Phanindra Sama: I thought about the problem and then how to create the solution. On the software side, I knew there would be various different types of people accessing the system and it had to be done by a

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