Friday, March 23: Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Kolkata

Sramana Mitra will be speaking about “Building Kolkata’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline” at a TiE Kolkata event on Friday, March 23, 2012. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. at the DPSC Centre of Excellence in Kolkata, India. Pradeep Udtha, Strategy Lead for Cloud, Devices & Startups, Microsoft Corporation, will also be giving a presentation. To register, please

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 1)

Cloud storage is a cost-effective way for businesses to secure data or quickly recover  them when they’ve been lost. And there are plenty of cloud storage companies out there serving businesses of all sizes in every possible industry. Though one of many, Symform offers its clients something a little different, as my talk with CEO Matthew

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A Successful Husband-Wife Team: Moonfruit Cofounders Wendy Tan White and Joe White (Part 5)

Sramana: Whom did you raise money from to buy the French domain name company, and what was the impact on Moonfruit? Joe White: We raised it from U.S.-based VC firms, primarily Stevens, which is based in Arkansas. We saw the revenues of the firm we acquired triple once we were able to cross-sell the Moonfruit

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Catching Up On Readings: Roundtable Update

As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1M/1M public roundtables. There are no roundtables for a couple of weeks when I am traveling in India. We will be holding future roundtables on: Thursday, April 12, 8

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A Successful Husband-Wife Team: Moonfruit Cofounders Wendy Tan White and Joe White (Part 4)

Sramana: Who is your typical power user? Are they small businesses? Wendy Tan White: Today it is predominately small businesses. In the early days we had a wide ranging audience. We had hobbyists, home users, and small businesses.

Outsourcing: LN Balaji, President of ITC Infotech (Part 6)

Sramana Motra: If you want to build an operation in Mississippi, you can do that. You can build something – you’re already doing something – in Arkansas. You can do it in Vermont. You can do it in all sorts of low-cost United States regions. We’re seeing that. We’re also seeing Latin America, big time.

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A Successful Husband-Wife Team: Moonfruit Cofounders Wendy Tan White and Joe White (Part 3)

Sramana: It was mentioned that in the early days you did a lot of freelance work. This is a common strategy employed by entrepreneurs. We recommend it heavily in 1M/1M. Would you talk more about that? Wendy Tan White: During the first phase of our business, we learned that if you have too much money

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Outsourcing: LN Balaji, President of ITC Infotech (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Because of the analytics talent? LN Balaji: Yes, it’s a little bit high end. You don’t have to be high end all the time. When it was developed, we did it that way, and we did it out of Calcutta. This is maybe a five- or seven-year-old engagement. We still maintain it out

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