Calling All Indian Entrepreneurs

One of my readers suggested that he would like to see more coverage of Indian entrepreneurs on this blog. Well, we’d be delighted to oblige. Here are the pitching instructions, if you have a story-worthy venture. (Please feel free to forward to your friends and fellow entrepreneurs)

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Thursday, Nov. 17: 105th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 105th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 17th, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you and any entrepreneurs in your circle will join us!

Public Roundtables vs. 1M/1M Premium Program

By guest author Irina Patterson Many entrepreneurs attend our FREE 1M/1M Public Roundtables. Some of them think. “Why join the 1M/1M Premium Program? I can get Sramana’s advice at a free public roundtable any time!” They’re not the same thing. Let me show you the difference.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to share a trend that I’m seeing right now, particularly in companies where the number of customers is very large. [Red Hat] has a large number of customers. The number of support calls can be very large. You know how customer support organizations are set up as level one, level two, level

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Democratizing Marketing Automation: Act-On CEO Raghu Raghavan (Part 5)

Sramana: How important is WebEx to your company today? Raghu Raghavan: WebEx was a source of a lot of our earlier deals, but today it accounts for less than 10% of our business. Coming into the business we had the notion that behavior mattered, so we had good behavioral databases. We also captured a lot

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Democratizing Marketing Automation: Act-On CEO Raghu Raghavan (Part 6)

Sramana: You are more than just an email marketing company, and more than a marketing automation company. How do you pitch your product? Raghu Raghavan: If you know what marketing automation is, then we just tell you that we offer marketing automation for everyone. If you understand the value proposition then the pricing is very

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many customers do you have in total? How many customers do you service from your entire IT infrastructure? Lee Congdon: Internally or externally? SM: Externally. LC: Certainly, [we have] hundreds of thousands [of customers] around the globe.

Democratizing Marketing Automation: Act-On CEO Raghu Raghavan (Part 4)

Sramana: Did your conversations with Subrah about that WebEx problem set lead you to start Act-On? Raghu Raghavan: We talked about starting a company although I was not sure if it would be a big one or a small one. We started talking to a few of the venture firms in the Valley, and after

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