Thursday, September 13: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 142nd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 142nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, September 13, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I agree with you. Service Now is an excellent company. Elizabeth Cholawsky: Yes. We’re coming from the position of remote support as the core competency and building a constellation of IT tools around that. We come at it from two different use cases and two different parts of the tools. Service Now is

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Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 7)

Sramana: There is so much ubiquitous data use going on right now that it is obvious that carriers need to do something to keep up with infrastructure needs of this pattern. However, the consumer has this mentality that everything needs to be free or flat fee. Today’s Internet is crumbling over a colossal free rider

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SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond

Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multimillion-dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global spending on the Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) market is projected to grow 17.9% in 2012 to $14.5 billion and is projected to be worth $22.1 billion by 2015. IPOs and acquisitions abound, making it

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The part of the market I was referring to as the broader support market includes products like Assistly, for instance, which is inside of Salesforce.com, Zendesk, and a variety of startups and other companies that have come up with products in that space. Those are not what you compete with?

Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 6)

Sramana: I think there are a lot of great teams that get stuck. A great team is essential, but there is a lot more to having a successful business than simply having a great team. Chris Koopmans: If you have the right market or the right technology, you can still fail. You need a good

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 1)

We’ve featured Citrix on the blog before. This time, we’re going to discuss the wonderful things that Citrix is doing in the cloud. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Elizabeth. Let’s start with a bit of your personal background as well as what Citrix is doing in the area of cloud-based support. Elizabeth Cholawsky: Right now I am

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Envivio Plays for a Small Portion of Video Infrastructure Market

Researcher Synergy Research Group estimates that the video infrastructure market will grow 7% annually from $32 billion in 2011 to $45 billion by 2016. The most growth is projected in the content management and distribution segment, which is estimated to be worth $23 billion by 2016. San Francisco–based Envivio is one player trying to make

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