By guest author Tony Scott The Value of a Global Business Mindset Raju: You know, that’s the exciting thing about America isn’t it? It’s one of the few countries in the world I can think of that has these sorts of umbilical cord connections. I mean, Bangalore is probably more connected to Silicon Valley than
By guest author Irina Patterson Eric: It is amazing how much investors can damage a company. And I think the first thing an investor needs to do is not damage a company. Investors to be really careful to help the management team stay focused, be responsive and helpful, but not be demanding in ways that
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik SM: In terms of the collaboration cloud, the messaging cloud, and the analytics cloud, those are applications that are running on the private cloud? MW: That’s right.
This part of the interview looks into cloud vendor ecosystem in the legal sector in terms of vendors, VARs, preference of companies in terms of vendors and pricing models, cloud based offerings pricing models. Michael also talks about the cost savings realized by legal firms deploying cloud solutions. He thinks that it is still time before many of the available cloud based offerings are mature enough use and deployment in the legal sector.
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SM: What was the genesis of creating that product? Was it your work on the pentest contracts? CS: The head of Bell South told me that if I could automate my Web assessments techniques and provide a product that he could run in-house, he would purchase it from me.
By guest author Tony Scott Business Cultures: Silicon Valley Redux? Tony: Let’s talk a bit about business culture differences and work environments – how do you find those in India and China compared to the U.S.? Raju: Surprisingly, I find the work culture in India and China to be much closer to what we have
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you have any sector preference? Eric: We are seed-stage, software-enabled capital-efficient investors. So, within that there are a lot of things we can do, but our setup tends to lend itself to a lot of Internet investing. We can do other things, and we are doing other things.