Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 5)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you have a number for what is a reasonable size? Eric: I think there is no set number. I need to believe that the entrepreneur can build a big company. It depends what you mean by niche. A $500 million–dollar market where there is no real competition and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 3)

A big motivation for cloud adoption in legal industry is the speed at which cloud based offerings can be deployed. However, a big barrier to adoption is integration with existing on-premise enterprise applications. Only the peripheral user focused processes which have very basic integration requirements are the ones which have moved to the cloud from a legal industry standpoint. Michael mentions in this part of the interview that primary driver for selecting a cloud based offering at Gibbons is ‘business need and appropriate fit’ followed by usability, integration capability with existing systems, governance and security.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: And it’s pay-as-you-go utilization. RT: Right, they pay for what they use. One of the first questions I would ask is, Can cloud computing help me in some of these assumptions of ramping my cost more in line with the scale of my revenues? Does it

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Mashery, San Francisco, California

Today’s Deal Radar turns to a new topic for the series, application programming interface (API) management. It’s a concept that some have termed “Business Development 2.0“. A growing player in this space, Mashery creates API management tools. APIs make it easier for software programs to interact. Mashery uses its products to help companies make a

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 3)

SM: By 1994 the Internet was getting started. CS: Yes, folks like AOL were big at that time. I was still reading on DBS, and I was hooking up with local groups. CompuServe opened up a whole new world by allowing us to publish text files and learned knowledge by posting into newsgroups that were

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Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott The Growth of India and China Domestic IT Markets Tony: Are you seeing the growth of China and India domestically make an impact on your company, and how you are structured? Raju: I must say that one thing that is very different today is that the China and India domestic

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you think in terms of the valuation of the company? Eric: We have a zone of valuation we think is appropriate for our thesis of investment as seed investors. If a company reaches a point at which it feels it has accomplished far more than what we call

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Cloud Computing Trends And Opportunities

Cloud Computing and Its Origins In 1966, Douglas Parkhill talked about utility computing in his book The Challenge of the Computer Utility. He described a future where many computing activities would be provided through computer utilities, analogous to the electricity industry. This future of utility computing has arrived in the form of cloud computing. The

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