Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program — Orlando, Florida (Part 5)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: How many people work at the Venture Lab? Tom: There are about 15. And it’s a free service. Again, the universities and the counties here pay for the staff at the Venture Lab. And I use the Venture Lab here a lot to help with the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s explore these from an organizational standpoint. In your organization, in the business units or functional units that interface with the IT organization, what is their thinking on these kinds of cloud-related issues? What is the perspective of your CMO or your head of customer support?

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Indian Angel Network Co-Hosting 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Thursday, March 10

Indian Angel Network (IAN) is co-hosting the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, March 10, 2011, starting at: 9:30 p.m. IST/8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST. You can find more details and register here.

Capturing Intent In Non-Search Performance Marketing: Zephrin Lasker, CEO Of Pontiflex (Part 4)

Sramana: When you work with a publisher, are they required to install anything to use your technology? Zephrin Lasker: It depends on what type of publisher it is. If it is a mobile publisher, then they need to use our SDK in their mobile app development. If it is a Web publisher, then we can

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Employees First, Customers Second (Part 2)

By guest author Vineet Nayar [The miniseries from Vineet Nayar’s book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down continues with an excerpt from the second stage of the EFCS process: Trust Through Transparency. Nayar is the vice chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies.]

Catching Up: A Sharper Focus On Local

The Technology Stocks series has added Groupon and Yelp to its coverage. These companies don’t plan on making it easy for Google. Click on the full paragraph to read these and the rest of this week’s posts.

Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: [What you just said about offering speciality skills] goes back also to another point, labor rates. Seven or eight years ago, when outsourcing was really just trying to take off in a big way for call center outsourcing, the labor rates, if you focus on India or parts of the

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program — Orlando, Florida (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: Do you have any special initiatives at the moment? Tom: We try to team up with different organizations to do stuff. We’ve got a contract with the Department of Energy to put together this “MegaWatt Ventures” program.