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
Sramana Mitra: I think I’ve heard of Rent-A-Coder. Ian Ippolito: OK. That’s the way it started, and it was just programmers back then. The first month it probably made only $50 or $60, but it grew. Over the next couple of years, it started going faster and faster. We got some good publicity. We were
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Sramana Mitra: You needed to provide this service. Rob Jewell: Yes. We had to build a layer of services on top of that to ensure our clients were successful. Our thoughts have always been that as these channels mature, clients tend to want to bring advertising in-house. We’re in the process of handing the reins
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Raj De Datta is the CEO and co-founder of BloomReach, the world’s first web relevance engine. Prior to founding BloomReach, Raj was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures. Prior to that he was the director of product marketing at Cisco. Prior to Cisco he was part of
Outsourcing websites abound on the Internet, and each one has its own unique spin on the process. And vWorker, once known as Rent-A-Coder, does, too. A global outsourcing company, vWorker or “virtual worker” has nearly 175,000 employers hiring and managing close to 360,000 virtual workers every day. Sramana Mitra: Hi Ian. Let’s start with some