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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, May 17th 2012

SM: I’ll defer to you on this. This whole game is going to come under tremendous margin pressure. Everybody innovates. Everybody will continue to innovate. There will be new players that will apply more pricing pressure, but anytime it becomes a major telecom game, including cloud storage, these are all pricing games, and they’re going

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Building a Cross-Border e-Commerce Success Selling to Russia: Bay.Ru CEO Aaron Block (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, May 17th 2012

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Aaron Block is the CEO of Bay.ru, the first cross-border e-commerce business in Russia and the fastest growing shopping site in Russia. Bay.ru’s growth has been powered by affiliate partnerships with eBay and Amazon which provides Bay.ru an integrated product catalog in a wide range of

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Pete Lagana, Founder of Excellis Interactive (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, May 16th 2012

SM: Again, give me so use cases. Give me an example or a few examples of things that you are able to do with the kind of user experience work that you do that I wouldn’t be able to do in an off-the-shelf iPad application front ending an MRP system or CRM system. PL: Sure.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, May 16th 2012

SM: I understand the motivation. I’m asking more for a state of the union in that market. Since you’re an insider in that marketplace, it sounds like one of your strategies is to sell through these telecom providers. DG: Yes. It’s not our only strategy, but we believe it’s a great opportunity for the reasons

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Gaps in Analytics: Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, May 16th 2012

Sramana: In the pre-SaaS era, a lot of software got bought and sold that just stayed on the shelf. Siebel was notorious for being shelfware. As a category, is SaaS significantly better in terms of utilization rates? Jon Kondo: The beauty of SaaS is that if a company is not using the software, then they

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Pete Lagana, Founder of Excellis Interactive (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th 2012

SM: What would be helpful would be to double click down on some of those and give me some use cases. How are researchers using it? PL: Sure. Let’s say there’s a sales rep who needs to be connected with his inventory, and a particular life sciences company that makes medical devices needs to constantly

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th 2012

SM: Point taken. But the products in the market also have very large user bases. DG: Sure. So, did other wireless phones that you know about before the iPhone came out, before the Droid came out with their OSes that changed the way you interact with phones. But there were other phones like Samsung and

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Gaps in Analytics: Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th 2012

Sramana: What is the current financing market like for enterprise software? Silicon Valley has tipped heavily in favor of B2C. Having said that, a lot of cloud computing companies are doing well and raising financing. Can you comment about the lay of the land in general? Jon Kondo: It is a very good time for

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