CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 4)

Sramana: You mentioned that eBay is one of your customers. What do you do for eBay? Lukas Biewald: We do a lot of different things for them. The most mature application for them is classifying products. They get a lot of products in from their users, and they want to make sure they are going

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust (Part 1)

Today, I’m talking with David Rose, who founded AngelSoft, now Gust, in 2004. Gust provides a platform where angel investors and entrepreneurs can connect and discuss ventures. Originally created with angel investors’ needs in mind, Gust now has more than 750 investment organizations worldwide using its platform to manage deal flow and other day-to-day tasks.

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Outsourcing: Matthew Heim, President of NineSigma (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Now that I have the basic framework, let’s start peeling the onion. Help me understand more of your business, and help the audience understand more of your business. Matthew Heim: Sure. SM: So, it sounds like you have created a global network of solution providers through academia and other kinds of research and development organizations

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s very interesting. You sit at a good vantage point to be able to say how these 10,000 customers are using the cloud strategy, using the data center, using SunGard. Can you provide some sort of an overview of what exactly people are doing? What are these small and medium enterprises putting on

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CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 3)

Sramana: What is your business model? Lukas Biewald: Our business model is pretty simple. We quote customers the price for completed tasks, and upon completing those tasks recieve payment regardless of the cost we incur competing those tasks. We assume the price risk. Let’s suppose a company has a large directory of other businesses and

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