By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: From all your sources, how many pitches do you receive a month, approximately? Geoff: It’s kind of hard to say because I’ve only just cranked this thing up again. For a while, I was very involved with Y Combinator, so it was kind of dominating [my
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada SM: With that context, define sales 2.0 for me. There are a lot of definitions floating around; what is yours? DF: I honestly don’t have a definition. I have been in sales and marketing in the software industry for thirty years, and I believe if you lined
By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma SM: I have two other major questions. One is from an entrepreneur’s point of view: What do you see in the realm of cloud computing in general, security included? Where do you see are open spaces or blue-sky opportunities, unsolved problems, and open problems for
Entrepreneurs working in the cloud computing space will be given priority to pitch during the FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 16, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. We hope you will join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.
Even as companies large and small become more global in ambition and scope, language barriers remain a fact of doing business across borders. Language translation is one of those costs that most people don’t automatically think of when they’re looking at a balance sheet. But for big organizations, translating hundreds of thousands of words into
SM: What year was that? TT: That was in 1981. I fell in love with programming. The very first computer program I wrote was a blinking Christmas tree with asterisks. That was the only computer course that Wesleyan offered; however, the University of Illinois was a couple of hours away. They have a very good
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twenty-second interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Geoff Ralston, a Silicon Valley angel investor and serial entrepreneur who started and ran a number of companies and held senior positions at Yahoo! after one of his companies, RocketMail, was
Sudhindra Chada is an MBA candidate at Boston University School of Management. He previously worked as a project manager with Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore, India, and Seattle, Washington. He also has experience working with IBM and as a business development manager at Daulatguru.com, a Web 2.0 startup. He is passionate about IT strategy consulting.