By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What would you say are the key points that make Keiretsu Forum stand out from other angel groups? Larry: It’s the breadth of our investors. If a company does well in one chapter, other investors in other chapters also want to see them and possibly invest
Security in the cloud.
In this interview Sramana explores Harvard medical school usage of cloud computing and overall healthcare vertical trends with respect to cloud computing adoption.
SM: What is the hardest decision you have had to make as you were building this company? TM: In 2004 I had to recognize that we still did not have the right product. That was the hardest decision I have had to make with this company. We started with the wrong product, customized it for
By guest author Tony Scott Winning Customers as a New Entrant in a Competitive Environment Tony: When you talk about your customer base, what is your sweet spot? Jean: We’ve worked with some big companies, but our sweet spot is the guys who have off-shored already or who are interested in China and want a
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twentieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Larry Chaityn, president of New York Tri-State Chapters, the Keiretsu Forum. Irina: Hi, Larry. Let’s start with your background and then go to the point where you got involved with the
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: Or products, and people who may be able to provide technology to cloud vendors. One of the solutions could be that they provide is the segmentation of software or appliances. I think these are niche opportunities, but they seem like problems that need to be solved.
This part of the interview discusses chargeback, cloud security, legal issues involved in data storage in cloud spanning across geographies.