2012: Top Trends and Opportunities

New year. Fresh energy. Time to take stock of trends and open problems for 2012. The most notable change this coming year is that Steve Jobs is dead. In death, however, he has become even larger than life, and his legacy will drive this decade’s technology movement for a while at least. One of his

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Bootstrapping to 25 Million, Then Raising A 23 Million Series A: Coverity Cofounder Andy Chou (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What have you done with the venture money you raised? Andy Chou: We still have $22 million of venture money that we raised sitting in the bank. We are cash flow positive and do not anticipate having to go back and raise another round. We now have 200 employees, and we have 5

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Bootstrapping to 25 Million, Then Raising A 23 Million Series A: Coverity Cofounder Andy Chou (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The automotive industry seems like a good fit for Coverity because it historically does not do a very good job with software. Andy Chou: If you look at the [Mercedes-Benz] S Class coming out next year, you will see that the driver assist module has 25 million lines of code. Automotive applications are

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Indian Product Entrepreneurs: Your Time Has Come

We have discussed the topic of technology product companies from India on this blog for many years now. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising

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Thursday, Dec. 8th: 107th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 107th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 8, 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. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joe Graves, CIO of Stratus (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you say “with support,” what does that mean? All SaaS providers provide support. Joe Grrave: Well, it’s more than just “how do I do this” or “this isn’t working in this application.” Many of the software as a service providers are, more or less, point solutions at this point. I know you

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Bootstrapping to 25 Million, Then Raising A 23 Million Series A: Coverity Cofounder Andy Chou (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How does your business break down within your clients’ structure? Andy Chou: A majority of our business comes from embedded software. That includes consumer electronics, military and aerospace, medical devices, mobile, and verticals like that. We do have ISVs as well, and we are just starting to crack into the enterprise IT space.

Catching Up On Readings: Can You Crack This Code?

For a fun way to wrap up the weekend, readers may want to try cracking this code posted by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters to fast-track recruitment of talented code-crackers. For this week’s posts, click on the full article link.