Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: The other thing people need to understand is that technology is becoming mainstream. When technology becomes mainstream, you get winners and losers. And what’s happening now is it’s getting harder and harder to be a big Internet player. And, you could say that for biotech, too,

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Quickoffice, Plano, Texas

While it may not be practical for most companies to shift entirely to smartphones run their business, the improvements in smartphones and apps over the past few years has been only good news for companies such as Quickoffice, a maker of mobile and productivity products and services. Pre-installed on hundreds of millions of devices worldwide

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 2)

Sramana: What led you to leave a job that you loved at TI to start redBus? Phanindra Sama: One holiday in 2005 I planned my trip home to see my parents very late because I had been busy with work. I was very accustomed to traveling by bus, and I used to take several buses

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Outsourcing: Naresh Lakhanpal And Hiro Notaney Of Patni Computer Systems (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott Hiro: The dual nature of the cloud is where we spend a lot of time with the customers, saying, Okay, we can deliver in the cloud. Yes, that will create greater efficiency, but there’s also this other side where the technology itself can make you more efficient – it can

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is Sand Hill’s sector preference? Anu: It has to have technology or some sense of innovation to it. We’re not going to do a classic consumer goods company or a real estate company. It has to deal with technology in some way. Mostly, IT, some

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You were talking about alternative energy. Do you have special expertise and connections in the space? Michael: We have lots of connections in the space, in both industry and academia. But a lot of it is really because my other partners and I – this is

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Next 1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 2

The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 2, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. This roundtable will be co-hosted by the University Impact Fund, so their entrepreneurs will be given first priority to pitch their businesses.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Liferay

Liferay is the creator of Liferay Portal, an enterprise Web platform for that includes packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution. The portal’s capabilities include a variety of business solutions, such as content and document management with Microsoft Office integration, Web publishing and shared workspaces, enterprise collaboration, social networking and mash-ups,

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