Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have touched upon the electronic design automation (EDA) industry in some of the previous interviews as part of our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series. We noticed that there has been extremely limited cloud adoption in the EDA space so far. As we prepare to ring

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Why do you have so many data center requirements in your business? What is going on in your data center? MS: Well, you have to understand that we are a very, very data intensive company. We manufacture widgets. We do not stock furniture, but we are

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Careerealism

By guest author Eunice Nyandat How often have you changed jobs? If the answer is “many times,” you’re not alone. Data gathered by the U.S. government indicates that frequent job changing is not just a 21st-century phenomenon. Even workers born at the end of the baby boom (1957 to 1964) have held an average of

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From 0 To 31 Million Dollars With Search Engine Marketing & Inventory Financing: Kim Pedersen, CEO of 1000 Bulbs (Part 6)

Sramana: In 2004, after you received inventory financing, were you still getting 80% to 90% of your business through pay-per-click marketing? Kim Pedersen: Yes. That is not true today, but at that time it was. Search engine marketing is key for us today. We take 99% of all sales orders on the Internet today. We

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do your companies usually exit? Saad: Generally speaking, the vast majority of activity for any venture-backed company has been around acquisitions. IPOs . . . there just haven’t been a lot in the past few years. I think in the Web space in particular, the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 1)

Is the mid-market ready for cloud computing? What are the mid-market customer aspirations from a typical cloud-based solution provider? Most of the cloud based vendors and the entrepreneurs chasing cloud market are focusing on the most common and volume based solutions but there are there niche segments that are willing to pay a higher price for cloud-based solutions provided their specific and special needs are met by vendors. In this interview, Sramana delves behind the scenes into contract furniture manufacturer EvensonBest’s IT organization and brings out some interesting perspectives from mid-market segment. Do you belong to the camp that perpetually worries about dealing with the disaster recovery (DR) scenario when it comes to cloud adoption? If yes, then you may find EvensonBest’s hybrid cloud usage interesting whereby they address DR in a rather unique manner. For Martin Silverman, director of IT at EvensonBest, being able to support his end users through a cloud-hosted offering is a bonus as he no longer needs to worry about updating and maintaining dedicated servers for supporting IT needs of EvensonBest.

Next 1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, January 6

The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

From 0 To 31 Million Dollars With Search Engine Marketing & Inventory Financing: Kim Pedersen, CEO of 1000 Bulbs (Part 5)

Sramana: Aside from improving your personal managerial skills, it also sounds like you were unaware of various technical capabilities that could have helped you with your business, like inventory management software. Were you aware those types of software programs existed? Kim Pedersen: The real problem for me was the challenge of purchasing additional inventory while

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