By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: You mentioned that you chose UCS over other platforms. What were your evaluation criteria, and what did you learn about the different offerings available? Which vendors or solutions did you consider, and what did you learn about the competitors in that space? Why did you choose
Indian Angel Network (IAN) will be co-hosting the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, February 3, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs with IAN will be given first priority to pitch their businesses, but all are welcome to attend. You can find more details and register here.
Andrew Cohen’s Brainscape was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.
Amy Pressman is the president and co-founder of Medallia, a company she envisioned while she worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. She has also worked as an independent consultant for technology-based companies in Silicon Valley, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. She has an MBA
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: From time to time, the state of Maine may issue bond funds for a program that helps research institutions and companies to secure necessary R&D infrastructure and capital equipment. That program is closed right now, but we have been going through a process of awarding that
During this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we started with a discussion of our hot-off-the-press news: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With Persistent Systems; CrowdEngineering First Beneficiary. This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use
In case you missed it, the recording is here.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: When you say physical deployment, does that mean you had to put in a server; it is an on-premise deployment? RB: Yes. The Massachusetts state portal was actually a good case study because that was our first deployment. We architected the software using the UCS Platform,