Business Incubator Series: Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County, California (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mark: Actually, Gold Star started by thinking that [they were] going to be an employee benefits company, but they rapidly realized that they can only grow so far in doing that, and opened up to the public and that just took off. So, they did, in a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: And security? What is your strategy vis-à-vis security? Diane Bryant: Again, that is step one on the security factor. What are the applications that are of high risk? We don’t put those into the cloud. Then we go through, and we have

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: BonitaSoft, Grenoble, France

Deal Radar revisits open source with Grenoble-based BonitaSoft. The company creates a functional open source business process management (BPM) solution that designs, simulates, and automates processes. The aim is to allow businesses to turn their processes into business applications. Bonita Open Solution is designed to be comprehensive and scalable BPM solution that includes three main

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SKS Pursues Microfranchise To Cure Headaches

The political interference in the microfinance sector within the state of Andhra Pradesh in India has left the sector reeling in recent quarters. Despite Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Malegam Committee Report which offered a much needed breather for the MFI sector, SKS Microfinance, the largest player in India had to significantly increase their provision

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From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 5)

Sramana: Would you give me a granular view of what the initial product was that you launched in 2009? Kal Raman: If you look at a school today, on an average day they will use 14 different software vendors. They have a system to manage student demographic data which is the student information system. They

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Business Incubator Series: Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County, California (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How long can entrepreneurs stay? Mark: Entrepreneurs can stay in our incubator no more than four years. We will look at extenuating circumstances and possibly extend that for another year at most. Most of our better clients graduate sooner than that. Irina: You said you use

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Even so, does it really make sense for all enterprises to design and architect the entire solution on their own? You are probably much more technology oriented than many other IT shops. I have to believe that there are many other IT

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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, June 9

Sramana Mitra will be discussing Silicon Valley: The Next Decade during the FREE online strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs on Thursday, June 9, 2011, starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8:00 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can read some of her thoughts on the subject here. Entrepreneurs are invited to attend or pitch their businesses. You can find

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