Catching Up On Readings: A Tribute To Steve Jobs

As many readers will know, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple this week. Here my thoughts on Steve and his work.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All right, so, let’s move to your second point. Dan Raju: Our second point of value is very simple, as it is for everyone else, and that point is infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service has been great for us as a company that was very small and has grown tremendously big

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Free vs. Paid Help For Entrepreneurs

By guest author Irina Patterson Let’s talk about the $1,000 annual membership fee for the 1M/1M Program. If you are thinking about joining the 1M/1M, I am sure you are pondering that fee question … so, let’s talk about it. The 1M/1M Program is a business. It’s built on the same principles that we teach entrepreneurs

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Scaling With VARs And OEMs: Nexenta CEO Evan Powell (Part 4)

Sramana: Given that universities were not going to be your real market, what indications did you have as to what markets would be your beachhead? Evan Powell: We started with an open source core and our software was based on industry standards. Once we put up our store front and our free download site for

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How To Get FREE Feedback On Your Business Strategy

By guest author Irina Patterson Working on a business? Have you pitched it at the 1M/1M Free Strategy Roundtable yet? It’s a great way to get some early feedback on your business from a Silicon Valley veteran like Sramana Mitra. This kind of expert feedback is not easy to obtain even if you can afford

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Before we talk about budgeting capabilities and such, I think it would help readers to understand better if you gave a use case of a particular instance? Dan Raju: Absolutely! So, for example, most of us in technology do two things. We say, I am

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Scaling With VARs And OEMs: Nexenta CEO Evan Powell (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you fund Nexenta? Evan Powell: We did take a little bit of funding, but it was convertible bridge notes to me, some folks at Stanford, and so forth. We really got out there as soon as possible and even though we were giving the product away we were started asking for payments

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Technology Balance Beam: Balancing Internal and Outsourced Tasks

A guest post by Shane Caniglia   Marketing requirements and customer experience are driving the necessity for innovation and speed in our ever-changing business environment of delivering financial education. Right now, there are many simultaneously interlocking elements in development: Web initiatives and analysis, data capture and management, social media, and mobile applications. I consider these 5

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