Bootstrapping Zero to 7M from Kolkata: FusionCharts CEO Pallav Nadhani (Part 7)

Sramana: Where is your inside sales team located? Pallav Nadhani: They are all in India. Most of them are in Bangalore, although some of them are in Calcutta. Sramana: How has your team evolved and shifted over the past several years? Pallav Nadhani: One of our biggest challenges is that it is very hard to

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Outsourcing: Million-Dollar Freelancer: A1 Future CEO Srish Agrawal, Kolkata, India (Part 1)

The founders of Elance, Freelancer.com, and others perhaps never envisioned that one day smart, industrious, and innovative contractors would use the freelance work platforms to build million-dollar businesses. Srish Agrawal, CEO of A1 Future Technologies created accounts on Elance and Scriptlance, which was acquired by Freelancer.com in July 2012, and before long, he found himself

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Diarmuid Mallon, Head of Product Marketing for Sybase, an SAP Company, on Mobile Banking (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Right. I think we understand the benefits. Would you talk about how banks are doing it? What is the architecture of the solution? How does the money flow? Diarmuid Mallon: What’s being done is that there’s a commerce platform deployed on mobile. Traditionally, when people talk about mobile banking, what they’re talking about

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Bootstrapping Zero to 7M from Kolkata: FusionCharts CEO Pallav Nadhani (Part 6)

Sramana: You said you changed your pricing and started going after mid-sized and other larger customers. How did you manage that process? It can be tricky to change pricing. Pallav Nadhani: We started at $15 and the next year we moved it to $35. After that we went to $99, $250 and finally $500. In

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Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: And the banking and financial services focus that you’re developing, is this going to be a global focus, or is it just North America? Gopinathan Padmanabhan: It’s going to be global, absolutely global. In all regions, we are pushing for our presence in that particular space. We may not be the king of

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Thursday, July 19: King’s College London Entrepreneurs To Pitch & Win At 136th 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 136th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable competition co-hosted by A&N Media and Elance on Thursday, July 19, 2012, at 3:30 p.m. BST/7:30 a.m. PDT/10:30 a.m. EDT. King’s College London entrepreneurs will have first priority to pitch and the winners, chosen by Sramana Mitra and executives with A&N Media and Elance, will

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Diarmuid Mallon, Head of Product Marketing for Sybase, an SAP Company, on Mobile Banking (Part 1)

People can use their mobile phones to do just about anything these days, including personal banking. Founded in Berkeley, California, in 1984 by Mark Hoffman and Bob Epstein, Sybase started out as a company that provided enterprise infrastructure and mobile software until it acquired Mobile 365, Inc. in 2006.  The acquisition of Mobile 365 introduced

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Bootstrapping Zero to 7M from Kolkata: FusionCharts CEO Pallav Nadhani (Part 5)

Sramana: In 2006 you were close to a million dollars in revenue and had a staff of 10 people. What happened next? Pallav Nadhani: Over the years I had received a lot of requests to build new features and capabilities in Fusion Charts. Instead of building them inside of Fusion Charts, we built a new

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