Letting Customers Design The Product: Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller (Part 1)

Adam Miller is the founder, president and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, a leading SaaS company. Prior to founding Cornerstone, he was a lawyer and an investment banker. He worked in corporate finance with Schroders (now Citi Financial) and an affiliate of Montgomery Securities (now Bank of America), supporting clients with private equity and public financing,

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In Memory of Steve Jobs

Invictus By William Ernest Henley  Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond

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Outsourcing: Arul Murugan, Founder and CEO of Enrich IT (Part 1)

Enrich IT was founded by Arul Murugan and his wife, Kavitha Palani, with the idea to help companies by providing them with tailored solutions in areas like business process management, technology services, enterprise application management and software licensing. Bootstrapped with $25,000, the company is now a multimillion dollar enterprise that specializes in Oracle supply chain

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How Specialty Product Retailers Can Accelerate Growth

By guest author Daniel Burrus A recent Forbes magazine article listed some of the most profitable businesses in America, and many of them were (surprisingly) restaurants. In fact, two of the restaurants had four-year growth rates of over 120%. The four-year growth rate is important, because it includes the recession, meaning that these restaurants are

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Again, from a trend point of view, you’re sitting at an interesting vantage point. Where are the entrepreneurs? You gave me an idea about where the investors are. You said France is seeing a new angel investment surge, as are India and the U.S. Where are you seeing entrepreneurial activities? David Rose: Countries

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100th 1M/1M Roundtable Meet-up For Entrepreneurs In Seattle/Tacoma, Washington

William Factory Small Business Incubator will be hosting a meet-up around the 100th 1M/1M Roundtable for entrepreneurs in the Puget Sound area on Thursday, October 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PDT. William Factory Small Business Incubator is conveniently located adjacent to Interstate 5 off the Portland Ave. exit in Tacoma, at 1423 East

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: So, let me go back to the question I asked. Are you doing something proactively in terms of offering incentives to entrepreneurs to set up their cloud services on your platform? Indu Kodukula: Absolutely. First of all, you can come and deploy your services on us. If you don’t, we offer you essentially a way

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CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 7)

Sramana: Would you talk some about the CEO transition? When did you bring in Woody Hobbs? Lukas Biewald: We brought him in a couple of months ago. The business had grown and we were selling to bigger and bigger customers and were eyeing finance, healthcare, and other industries that I had no experience with. I

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