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1M/1M: Premium Member FreshDesk Wins Microsoft India Startup Challenge

Just got the news, 1M/1M Premium company FreshDesk has won the Microsoft BizSpark Startup Challenge grant in the Cloud category. It’s a $40,000 prize, and a grant. Not debt, not equity, but a grant. Congratulations, Freshdesk! We’re very proud of you guys. And Microsoft team, it has been a pleasure working with you.

Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi About César Gon Brazilian software entrepreneur César Gon has been a key player in several initiatives to promote excellence in software development. Under Gon’s leadership, CI&T’s roster of services has grown to also include business intelligence, SAP consulting, and digital marketing. The company has developed solutions for major

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Surviving The Dotcom Crash And Building A Sustainable Business: LivePerson CEO Rob LoCascio (Part 7)

Sramana: In terms of product roadmap, there are a lot of trends playing in your marketplace. In which direction is your sweet spot? Rob LoCascio: Bringing real time intelligence to customer interaction. That is what we are very good at. When you engage a consumer on a website today, most sites treat every consumer equally.

Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: I took me a couple years or a year and a half to research and decide what to do. I was going to launch in 2009 but the economy … you know, you start these things for a summer program in February or March.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Frank: We don’t generate our own power. A lot of the computing stuff that’s similar across companies, why wouldn’t you be buying that capacity outside the four walls of the company and getting better economies of scale and capability?

Surviving The Dotcom Crash And Building A Sustainable Business: LivePerson CEO Rob LoCascio (Part 6)

Sramana: What do you think of the crowdsourcing trend? Rob LoCascio: Crowdsourcing has a lot of different applications. I think that it is something different and is based on the next phase of the Internet, data. People bringing their data together will change the way the Internet goes forward.