By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jeff: Sometimes people will catch my attention. Someone the other day reached me via Twitter. I looked at what he was doing. It was a 20-year-old kid who was trying to put a company together, so I gave him some advice around how to think about his
Alan: Another one is in the financial services arena, and it has been cash flowing now for over twenty-four months, and it doesn’t get any better than that. When a company is just internally building cash, it’s a wonderful thing to see and we’ll probably look at exit on that company possibly even this year
By guest author Tony Scott SaaS and Its Impact on Outsourcing Tony: So how do you see SaaS and cloud computing ultimately driving the IT landscape, and how will that impact outsourcing companies? Vivek: SaaS is definitely beginning to establish itself. It’s a little too early to call a win on the cloud front, but
Solera Networks develops software and appliances for network forensics, a technology created to give more complete information into breaches of network security. Solera compares it to “putting a security camera on your network” by combining high-speed data capture, indexed storage, and comprehensive analysis tools.
SM: How do you feel about your overall situation? Have you made the right choices? JH: I feel really good about it. I have had very little doubt. I am now terrified to see how we could include another child. Kevin is ready and I am sitting here going, “Hold on,” because I just don’t
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: We talked with several CIOs last year, and they all highlighted collaboration as one of their primary areas of focus. In fact, they’ve stressed video conferencing and telepresence as key areas within collaboration. What else?
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many people work for the fund? Jeff: It’s just me. I am a workhorse. I have done eighty-two deals in the past six years on my own. And I do support my companies and I do help them and work with my CEOs despite the
Irina: Do you have any sector preference? Alan: No, but I’ll hit on a couple. First off, one of our criteria – and I call it a soft criterion, but it’s a general guideline that we adhere to – is that within Springboard’s membership, it’s 53 partners, if we don’t have anybody who has expertise