Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Let’s move to the device and mobility part of the operation. Mark Egan: Sure. On the device side, I would like to say I could set standards. But I think what we, as IT professionals, have to accept is that the consumer world is going

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Roundtable Recap: April 9 – 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3:00 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11:00 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. TiE Chennai

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1M/1M Kicks Off Partnership With TiE Chennai

Menlo Park, CA – April 14, 2011: The One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative is announcing a partnership with TiE Chennai that developed out of Sramana Mitra’s presentation during TiE Chennai’s Startup Super Day on April 9, 2011. The goal of the 1M/1M movement, inspired by Sramana Mitra’s vision to democratize capitalism, is to

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Bootstrapping A Software Company From Minnesota: Vicki Raport Of Quantum Retail (Part 7)

Sramana: You are a self-financed company, largely owned by six founders and your employees. How do you see the shareholders getting rewarded? Are you doing dividends, or do you see yourself getting bought at some point? Vicki Raport: At this point, our primary concern is growth. The shareholders are not sitting at the edges of

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What other kind of projects students usually do? Tim: We had a company that did consumer electronics. They had a little bug zapper that they were designing, and we had a student group that came in and helped with that. As matter of fact, they produced

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What about those entrepreneurs who don’t need or want to raise money? Stephen: Right, the bootstrappers. We have an active community of bootstrapping companies now, that for whatever reason, don’t need to or choose not to raise money – or choose not to raise money right

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And the private cloud, which is your own data center, is it not a third-party data center, right? Mark Egan: We actually have two data centers. We have a third-party data center, and we also have our own data center up in Washington. So, we

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Bootstrapping A Software Company From Minnesota: Vicki Raport Of Quantum Retail (Part 6)

Sramana: What do you see for the future of Quantum? Vicki Raport: We are trying to set our company up to be a next-generation player in retail technology and retail optimization. We are going to be the foundation of 21st-century retail transformation.