How To Build A Strong IP Portfolio: rPost CEO Zafar Khan (Part 6)

Sramana: Going back to the beginning of your company, at what point did you start considering and filing for patents? It is expensive to go through the legal process of filing for patents and getting them approved. Zafar Khan: It is a very expensive experience, not just from the aspect of filing for the patents

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How much of your business is catering to the India market, Manish? Manish Dugar: At this point, it is miniscule. It’s less than 5% of the BPO business that is [from] customers; however, we intend to get to a model where in we get similar profitability and buy outsourcing work,  we also get similar profit

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 6)

Jim Stikeleather: So, that’s the area where I think there’s tremendous opportunity. How do you embed real-time analytics into the data stream rather than using the after-the fact-analytics most people use today. Then, how to reintroduce humans into this analytic process so that they have some oversight over decision making. My suspicion is that the form

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September 29: FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, September 29, 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 to see you there, all are welcome!

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: iOffice Corp, Houston, Texas

There will be a need for companies that provide facility management services as long as people need to go to work. Companies like the Houston, Texas–based iOffice Corp are valuable not only because organizations have to provide comfortable, functional workplaces for their employees, but because iOffice in particular makes it easy and affordable for them to do

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Capitalism 2.0: The Free Rider Problem

If you have studied economics, you are familiar with the free rider problem. To refresh everyone’s memory, here is Wikipedia’s definition of the concept: In economics, collective bargaining, psychology, and political science, a free rider (or freeloader) is someone who consumes a resource without paying for it, or pays less than the full cost. The free rider problem is the question

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How To Build A Strong IP Portfolio: rPost CEO Zafar Khan (Part 5)

Sramana: How has your company progressed through 2011? What has your growth rate been? Zafar Khan: We raised our first private capital in 2001. We raised capital through a number of private financings over the course of time. We signed on the U.S. Government Accountability Office as our first government customer in 2003.

Catching Up On Readings: More On Capitalism 2.0

This coming week we return to capitalism 2.0, a theme approached from many angles on this blog. Until then, check out the past week’s post by clicking on the full paragraph link.