By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: If a company we invest in exits down the road at some point, either through acquisition or going through a public market, that equity will come back for Citrix, which would be great. [However], that won’t be the measurement on sustaining the program. The measurement on
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: In your industry, what is available today as infrastructure as a service? Obviously, storage was one of the first value propositions to be adopted as an infrastructure as a service, but is there something beyond that that is specific to your industry that you are
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Sramana Mitra: What is the ad server infrastructure that supports 2 billion page view a month? David Gorodyansky: It is our own infrastructure. We work with a lot of partners to sell the ads. We have hired a lot of engineers but not a lot of ad sales people. We partner with companies like Yahoo!
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Once entrepreneurs are accepted in the program, what is the next step? John: We’ll work with each of them individually. What’s a little different about our program than some of the other programs out there is this is not a class-style program where we bring in
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Right. What is the procedure of updating the knowledge base? Let’s say your agents come up with a scenario that is not addressed in the knowledge base, and somehow or the other you have to figure out how to answer that question. How does that
DisputeSuite develops niche technology and education services to assist credit repair companies in the management and growth of their business. These companies help consumers who notice an error on their report or whom want assistance in rebuilding or repairing their credit. DisputeSuite provides an interactive platform for professionals to communicate with consumers in a secure environment while
Sramana Mitra: What was your motivation for raising a second round of funding? Was it related to the censorship market? David Gorodyansky: In 2008 when we had our second round of money, we did it exactly for that reason. We were already well funded to address the Western market, but we wanted to cater to