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Partner Event: Startup Weekend Hyderabad On September 2nd-4th

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 31st 2011

Startup Weekend Hyderabad will be held this weekend, from September 2 through September 4, at ISB (Indian School of Business) in Hyderabad. This intense 54-hour event brings together people with different skill sets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them. You can

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Scaling With VARs and OEMs: Nexenta CEO Evan Powell (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 31st 2011

Sramana: Have you raised funds from any venture capitalist? Evan Powell: Last fall we announced that we took some money from a great fund called TransLink. They have offshore relationships throughout Asia in their fund. Our perception is that in the long-term, hardware makers in Asia are going to disintermediate the brands that sit in

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 30th 2011

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely! So, my follow-on question as I was listening to you as you talked about opening up your API is, What kinds of tools would you like to see third-party developers offer? Do entrepreneurs develop on your platform to provide value? If you were an entrepreneur and if you were to use TradeKing’s

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Scaling With VARs and OEMs: Nexenta CEO Evan Powell (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 30th 2011

Sramana: You have mentioned that you incentivize your own sales force to ensure your partners success. Have you provided any incentives for the VARs? Evan Powell: The more active our partners get the more we will co-sell with them. We will put up to 10% of the dollars that they sell which come to us

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September 1: FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Aug 29th 2011

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 1, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. Please let your friends know, all are welcome!

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Aug 29th 2011

Dan Raju: So, as I was saying, You have an extremely big change in the way customers are consuming services and that change began with the influx of mobility technologies to the site, which has completely disrupted the space. The second thing has to do with customers themselves, and they are requesting an entirely different

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What’s Next For Salesforce.com?

Posted on Monday, Aug 29th 2011

SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) vendors Salesforce.com and RightNow recently reported second quarter results that beat estimates. Salesforce.com has been on an acquisition spree, acquiring eight companies over the year. What will be its next move? Let’s take a closer look.

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Scaling With VARs And OEMs: Nexenta CEO Evan Powell (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Aug 29th 2011

Sramana: Let’s explore the OEM relationship a bit more. What is the end product of your OEM partner? Evan Powell: Compellent has a product called zNAS. They sell blocked storage, and we run on top of that to give you network attached storage. They ended up announcing to the world that they are partnering with

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