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
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,
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Phanindra Sama, otherwise known as Phani, is the co-founder and CEO of redBus. redBus is India’s largest bus ticketing company and a Forbes Top 5 Startup in 2010. Phani has a BE in electrical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. Prior to founding redBus,
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: In terms of the percentage of the business that you have right now, I assume that some is driven primarily by labor rate arbitrage. Obviously, labor rate arbitrage is a component of everything, but how much do you think of your business now is still more pure labor arbitrage
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are other important factors for you when you make your decision about any particular entrepreneur? Anu: One of the biggest factors is, Is this something you’ve done before? Are you someone who’s worked at Oracle and is now doing a database company? Do you know
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you usually allocate for interns to do? Michael: It depends on the timing of the work. A lot of it is helping out with the screening of companies. Some of the stuff is helping with logistics at our meetings. Also, some of it is
All eyes will be on travel and retail as the holiday season, so important for both industries, begins this week. Deal Radar company ShopIgniter believes that the 2010 holiday season will be a watershed moment for social commerce, and players as diverse as Amazon, Apple, Intel, and Orbitz stand to gain greatly from the ever-tighter
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about higher education–specific vendors? RS: I would put Apple in there. Apple would count as an education-specific vendor. SM: How so? Do they have specific offerings for higher education? RS: Every other year, Apple organizes a conference for CIOs in higher education. They have account