Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: We’ve actually invested in a company that’s in the social recruiting space, and we did it three years ago. The company is  Jobvite. In the case of Jobvite, the insight we had was look, this build-out of the social graph – and Facebook and LinkedIn and

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Catching Up On Readings: Incubating Small Business Ideas

Journalist Ritwik Mukherjee of the Financial Chronicle and I recently discussed innovative ways to incubate small businesses, which are the cornerstone of the economy in most countries. Click on the full article to read the rest of the week’s posts.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Yes, I think there are several of those low-hanging fruits. I think the entire domain of collaboration has lots of applications, whether it is Web conferencing, which is pretty much operating on a cloud computing basis, or something else. There are a bunch of cloud-friendly applications

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From 0 To 31 Million Dollars With Search Engine Marketing & Inventory Financing: Kim Pedersen, CEO of 1000 Bulbs (Part 4)

Sramana: Even though you had no formal metric tools, you must have had some sense of the impact these ads were having on your business. Kim Pedersen: That is a correct statement. I could tell by the number of sales orders I received each day because the number kept going up.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: LiveOps also run a managed service where they have more than 20,000 agents who aren’t employees of the company [but] are contractors who are executing sales and customer support and other things for customers all over the world. What’s interesting about that model and what really

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dave Hart, CTO and EVP, Presidio (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Yes, I think that is what IBM is trying to achieve. I spoke with Pat Toole and Rick Telford at IBM earlier as part of the Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series, and they both talked about how they are trying to build up the integrated

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From 0 To 31 Million Dollars With Search Engine Marketing & Inventory Financing: Kim Pedersen, CEO of 1000 Bulbs (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you handle the e-commerce transactions when you first launched the website? Did you just generate leads that you would complete by visiting in person or over the phone? Kim Pederson: I would put listings of our inventory online, and visitors could print out a copy of our inventory list and mark the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: I think that the most difficult thing to find is exceptional entrepreneurs and exceptional teams. Once you find them, everything else, as far as I’m concerned, is a commodity. Technology is a commodity, ideas are a commodity. Execution is the only thing that matters, and smart

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