An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies were funded by angels during their incubation period? Debera: At this point, Sam Cochran, [the CEO of SMIT, which runs] the Solar Ivy company got about $250,000 in angel funding. The other companies are less needy, less technology based. They’re not actually looking

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Based on my research, I see a distinct trend [toward] interesting private cloud deployment. LO: Very interesting! What would you say is the driver; I am curious to know. SM: I think it’s cost that is the driver, which is why I was probing that, to

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, February 17

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing all aspects of a start-up venture are welcome to attend the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, February 17, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here.

Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 4)

Sramana: What did you ultimately do with the import business? Did you sell it? Dan Serfaty: I sold it to my partner and the management of the company. When 1999 came around and the Internet was going crazy, I felt I had the perfect profile to get involved. I had the right diploma, which makes

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An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies have you incubated since inception? Debera: Up until now, we’ve been involved with 20. We just brought in four new companies. The fourth will be coming in March. Of those, 16 are still in business.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Laef Olson, CIO Of RightNow (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: How do you handle pricing for a situation such as the private cloud deployment for the Department of Defense (DoD)? Your primary product is on a per user per month subscription model, right?

Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: What do you think are going to be the big changes? Obviously, the pure labor arbitrage model is not going to go away entirely; it is going to continue to move to whatever locale is the lowest cost. The fact is that the “flattening” of the world means I

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Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 3)

Sramana: What did you do after you sold the tourist business in 1991? Dan Serfaty: During the second year of that company, I started another company from scratch with a friend of mine. The frontier in Europe opened in 1993. Up to that time it was difficult to import goods from one country to another.