By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Hi, Dan. Welcome to our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series. Let’s begin by talking about what TradeKing does, and what your business is, and what is the scope of cloud deployment we are talking about for your company. Also, would you give us some
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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Evan Powell is the CEO of Nexenta and an entrepreneur with broad experience building software and service companies. Prior to Nexenta Evan was the founding CEO and then VP of marketing and business development at Clarus Systems. Prior to founding Clarus Systems, Evan was an early
Sramana Mitra: Now, switching to the topic of entrepreneurship, you know this industry quite well. You have not just been 11 years with 24/7. You have also been in contact center technology for a much longer time. PV Kannan: Yes. SM: Would you point out some entrepreneurial opportunities for our audience? Around the world, entrepreneurship
Sramana: Essentially you started as a VAR company and have added high level strategic consulting on top of a VAR company. Now you have to find a way to make those two business models work together. Dan Adamany: We are starting to marry these models. We have been growing so fast that, while I know
By guest author Irina Patterson Let’s be pragmatic. Sramana labored over six years to assemble over 500+ case studies of successful entrepreneurs. She collected nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom. A lot of it came from Silicon Valley where she’s based — Silicon Valley’s tribal knowledge — as she calls it. She synthesized this tribal knowledge into
Sramana Mitra: This has been very insightful thus far. What other trends are you seeing in the outsourcing call centers? PV Kannan: Just to put it straight, we are not really in the pure outsourcing business. We don’t compete with the classic outsourcing companies on work. If someone says, I need 500 people in location
Sramana: I find the area of cloud computing to be a key strategic area for companies right now. How does that landscape look from your point of view? Dan Adamany: The industry is evolving very quickly with cloud computing. Traditional resellers have aligned themselves within IT to verticals such as backup, storage, and servers. Today