Building a Made-in-India ERP Product Company: Ramco CEO Virender Aggarwal (Part 5)

Sramana: Do you have value added reseller and system integrator channels active or do you do those service yourselves? Virender Aggarwal: In the past two months we have appointed 15 partners in the US. I don’t think any partner in the US is capable of doing any of the customization work on their own. In

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Catching Up On Readings: Remembering Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist, committed suicide Friday at age 26. Among many of this weekend’s articles on Aaron, his life and his work, are a New York Times obituary and this tribute from Wired. Click on the paragraph link for the rest of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You are primarily involved in the retail space, but what other industries are potentially big adapters of big data in regards to video analytics? Derek Rodner: Any public sector area. I am talking about airports, train stations, subway stations, and so on. [Governments are actually using this] now in city and state parks.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 7)

Dale Skeen: I agree. You have these areas of capability, and in each one you are finding increasing refinement of the domain knowledge. Offering [our product] as an SaaS offering makes sense because you are dealing with smaller businesses that typically have less IT capability. The SaaS mode is typically the least costly way for

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Series A Crunch: Customers vs. Investors

What have you been doing for the last six months? Chasing customers? Chasing Investors?

Building a Made-in-India ERP Product Company: Ramco CEO Virender Aggarwal (Part 4)

Sramana: How big is the MRO business today? Virender Aggarwal: That business does about $12 million a year and is growing rapidly. Sramana: How big is the cloud ERP business? Virender Aggarwal: In terms of revenue it is doing $5 million, but it is growing very rapidly to the extent that we have stopped selling

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Could you tell me a bit more about how this works from a technological perspective? “Tying an event down to the millisecond level in a video” – how do you do that? Derek Rodner: That is actually our special [approach]. In addition to being the only player in the retail operations big data

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Series A Crunch: Real vs. Pseudo Entrepreneurs

Much is being said on a daily basis about the Series A crunch. This is our series on the subject. In short, byte-sized posts, I will give you my thoughts on how to deal with the issue. Please note, this advice is entirely for entrepreneurs, not investors.