Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 6)

Sramana: What is the size of your user base today? Dan Serfaty: Globally, we have 35 million members. We need to distinguish between emerging countries and other countries because that affects revenue generation. We did not start reaching out into the international community until 2007.

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Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Do you see HCL also doing more of the type of deals that you did with CA, possibly moving into product creation? Shami: Definitely. There was a time when we were very strong and focused on seeing whether we could do an entire platform; everything is about platforms. One

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An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What other business development tools do you use? Debera: There are lots of tools for developing business plans. We use those. That’s fairly structured. Then, around [such tools] is the fairly chaotic experience of the other people in the incubator as well as all the mentors

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 1)

Will the cloud level the entrepreneur playing field and straighten out some of the ugly bumps during a typical startup journey, especially in Indian context, similar to how India leapfrogged years of telecommunication lag through its mass adoption of mobile technology? What are some of the barriers, challenges, and blue sky opportunities for new offerings, newer businesses based on cloud in India? In the following interview, Sramana and Sankarson Banerjee, CIO of India Infoline, dig into several aspects of cloud computing technology adoption and market needs in India.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s talk about moving to Google Apps or Google e-mail at some point. Right now you work on an Exchange platform. You have developed all your applications on top of the Microsoft environment. Now if you move to Google, all of that investment kind of becomes

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Partner Event

Indian Angel Network, Bangalore, India – February 18, 2011 Indian Angel Network (IAN) is holding a seminar on International Patenting Strategies on Friday, February 18, 2011, in Bangalore, India, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. IST. You can find more details and REGISTER HERE.

Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 5)

Sramana: Did you monetize any other channels besides recruiters? Dan Serfaty: After a short while we decided to implement a membership fee. Early on I decided that I did not care if people left because we were going to charge a membership fee.

Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Companies have to figure out what their own core competencies are. If you look at the history of artisans, they made everything themselves. Then came industrialization with vertical integration, with ultimate example being Ford’s River Rouge plant. When it was finished, it was the largest integrated industrial plant in

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