Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 2)

Sramana: What was the impact of using SourceForge.net for the repository, and when did that happen? Paolo Juvara: We put the product on SourceForge.net in 2006, and the result was amazing. There was such a high level of activity that OpenBravo was on the front page of the website. OpenBravo was consistently among the top

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Tim Cartwright, Chairman, Tamiami Angel Fund – Naples, Florida (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your geographical focus? Tim: The state of Florida. As stipulated in our fund document, we are not allowed to invest in companies outside the state of Florida.

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, March 3

Entrepreneurs with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are welcome to present their businesses at, or attend, the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, March 3, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here.

February 24 Roundtable Poll Winner

Adarsh Jain’s CricketWeekly.in 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.

The State Of Cloud-Based Storage – Is It Ready? Are You? (Part 2)

By guest author Bob Shinn, with an introduction by guest author Shaloo Shalini What Is the Cloud Storage Market? Cloud storage solutions emerged from the utility computing model, in which defined services depend on standardization and customer satisfaction depends upon optimization of those defined services. Players include low-end providers such as EMC’s Mozy, which offers online backup

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sankarson Banerjee, CIO Of IndiaInfoline (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: You are saying that in terms of the Indian market, customers want local support network and vendors to have retail offices [in India]. SB: Yes. Netmagic is located in India, and that offers a face which people can see and relate to. I would say this is

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Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 1)

Paolo Juvara is the CEO of OpenBravo, an open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) company. Prior to joining OpenBravo in 2007, he was based in Redwood Shores, California, working for Oracle Corporation in applications development. He held a broad range of development and management roles within Oracle’s Applications business, including positions on the financials, supply

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Roundtable Recap: February 24 – VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators – What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators – What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? It makes the following observation: When I first talked about the 1M/1M program, I had observed the need to contain the immense infant

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