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Bootstrapping An Innovative Telecom Services Startup: Callture Co-founders Mamoon Rashid and Siva Sanmuga (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 4th 2011

Mamoon Rashid and Siva Sanmuga are serial entrepreneurs who co-founded Telcan in 1997 followed by Callture in 2004. Both graduated from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, after completing their engineering studies. Callture is a Canadian technology company based in Ontario and is a subsidiary of Telcan. Sramana: Mamoon, can you give us some context to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 3rd 2011

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Steven John: To get back to your original question about architecture points to keep in mind, because of the way the product is architected, we don’t have to customize and our customers don’t have to customize [as they did] in the old way of thinking about it.

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 3rd 2011

Sramana: How did the business ramped up from 2005 through 2010? Nick Balletta: We have quadrupled revenues during that amount of time. Our revenues are north of $20 million.

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Shane Caniglia

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 2nd 2011

The Rich Dad Company, a financial education company, sought out Shane Caniglia  to spearhead technology initiatives that they had never tackled before.  Rich Dad, Poor Dad series author, Robert Kiyosaki, and his wife, Kim, realized that serving financial literacy to the masses took an application of technology that did not exist in their company at that time. Creative

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 2nd 2011

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Yes, absolutely! So, Workday is kind of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud solution, right? It does financial management as well as human capital management and a few other things.

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Monarch Media, Santa Cruz, California

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 2nd 2011

Online education and training continue to grow in popularity. It costs less for students to get bachelor’s and master’s degrees online. Employers, too, save money by arranging for employees to take training courses online and on their own time. Monarch Media has provided e-learning solutions, including online and mobile courses, educational software development, learning management systems,

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 2nd 2011

Sramana: After you reacquired the company in 2005, what were the strategic steps you took to build the business?   Nick Balletta: In 2005 we had to make a couple of key decisions. We had a couple of different platforms because of the various machinations of the company. We decided to make a concerted effort to

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August 4: Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Aug 1st 2011

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 4, 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. We hope you can make it!

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