Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 7)

Sramana: If you are seriously thinking about heading out to get an executive MBA, then I will tell you to save yourself the money and trouble. Just do 1M/1M. We teach everything about entrepreneurship in a very efficient program for just $1,000 a year. Valerie Holstein: Maybe I should do that. I will definitely look

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 2)

SM: So you’re saying that instead of 100% content transformation solution, middleware layer in between, your approach is that 80% has to be automated and 20% custom and that you have solutions for both the 80% automated and the 20% custom? CR: Yes. We provide the design and the services for doing the customization. And

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 7)

SM: Last question, when you look around, what are some of the interesting entrepreneurial opportunities that are opening up because of the wide adoption of platform-as-a-service as it unfolds? PR: If you’re an entrepreneur today, your startup cost is incrementally low. If you have a good idea, to execute on an idea, you can leverage

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Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 6)

Sramana: What are the functions that you staff for today? Customer support and shipping are obviously key roles. Valerie Holstein: Right now it is mostly customer service associates and outside sales people. We have a reverse approach to business. We are technically 100% e-commerce, but we recognize that in order to leverage our exposure, we

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Thursday, May 10: Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 126th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 126th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, May 10, 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 Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 1)

UIEvolution is a software development company with offices in the United States and Japan. The company creates software solutions that break through the complexity of connected services by delivering native and HTML5 apps that are managed from a cloud-based platform. UIEvolution’s clients include well-known, elite enterprises like ESPN, Toyota, AT&T, Microsoft, Samsung, Hikari-TV, and many

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 6)

SM: Let me get another piece of clarification here. So, Microsoft is playing this game both at an isolated platform-as-a-service level as well as an integrated platform-as-a-service plus infrastructure-as-a-service, is that correct? PR: That’s correct. SM: Whereas Amazon is just playing infrastructure-as-a-service, Rackspace is playing the infrastructure-as-a-service game, Microsoft Azure, I presume, can be lowered

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Trend: Leveraging Platforms to Bootstrap

Of late, several major tech companies have developed significant platforms upon which entrepreneurs are bootstrapping successful, sustainable businesses. Of course, Microsoft continues to be one of the most successful players in that market. Here is the story of Brian Knight and Pragmatic Works, a $12M a year business that has been built in the SQL

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