Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jon Freeman, CIO of MyCroft, Inc. (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I think we understand the business at this point and your core competencies and design principles. This series is part of the One Million by One Million effort, which is to help a million entrepreneurs reach $1 million in annual revenue around the world. A huge part of our audience are entrepreneurs who are

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Letting Customers Design The Product: Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller (Part 6)

Sramana:Where you able to use those contracts to obtain working capital financing? Adam Miller: We did two things. Our CFO, Perry Wallack, and I became obsessed with a metric called operating profits also known as operating yields.

Business Incubators: What Do You Think?

By guest author Irina Patterson If you are running a business incubator or any other entrepreneur-supporting organization, we at 1M/1M would like to hear from you. To share with us your thoughts, you can simply finish any of these sentences:

Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You said that it’s not easy to do IT services. That’s not entirely true, you know. I think what you are going to see — and you have not seen this yet — but in a way, what you are doing right now with the services business is almost, as you said, very specialized,

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101st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On October 13

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 101st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 13, 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 join us, all are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jon Freeman, CIO of MyCroft, Inc. (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of where it exists, are you saying that you also provide data center facilities to host a private cloud implementation of your solution? Jon Freeman: That’s correct. We have many customers today who may own data centers but also have either co-lo facilities or use service providers to host some of

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Letting Customers Design The Product: Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller (Part 5)

Sramana: Essentially, your angel financing allowed you to build your product and develop your pipeline? Adam Miller: Exactly. We were also raising incremental money throughout in very small chunks. I was perpetually raising money. I was doing that in parallel with everything else for years.

Catching Up On Readings: Positioning For Specialty Retailers

In this week’s guest post, technology forecaster Daniel Burrus uses the surprising success of the restaurant industry in this weak economy to discuss how specialty retailers can best position themselves for growth. To read the rest of the week’s posts, click on the full article.