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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 27th 2013

Sramana Mitra: Were you charging for these apps? Calvin Carter: Yes. In 2008 the only way we could build a business and [earn] revenue was to charge for the apps. There was no in-app purchase model that exists today. That came out later. The only way to make money with apps was charging for the

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 26th 2013

Calvin Carter is the founder and president of Bottle Rocket, one of the market leaders in high-end mobile app development. In this interview he describes the development of mobile apps from his company’s standpoint and shares his vision of mobile apps and the future of mobile apps. He also gives us an interesting definition of

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 26th 2013

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about specific examples where you have made use of near shoring – especially in-country – resourcing for corporations? What locations have you chosen, for what reasons, and what drove those choices? What are cost structure dynamics, etc.? Roop Singh: Let’s take the example of North America. In North America, given

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July 11 – 181st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 25th 2013

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 181st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 25th 2013

Roop Sing is the vice president and head for North America, Europe, and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services. Roop brings more than 24 years of financial experience to the company. Prior to Wipro he was CEO of SSI Technology. He graduated from Henley, obtaining an MBA in international business. In this interview Roop talks about

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Kelly Passey, EVP of Business and Product Development at Access Development (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 25th 2013

Sramana Mitra: The thing that broke their model was that their discount level was unsustainable. Kelly Passey: That is correct. I don’t think they had the close loop reporting in control, because there was a lot of fraud, multi-use and multi-redemption from the same person. We heard all kinds of horror stories there. Just managing

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 25th 2013

Sramana: What was the premise behind Zscaler? Jay Chaudhry: We wanted to offer web security in the cloud. We also recognized that the world would be increasingly mobile. We also needed to do integration of point products. We did not need one for URL filtering, one for caching, one for antivirus, and one for DLP.

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Success Story Of An Indian College Drop Out

Posted on Monday, Jun 24th 2013

You can read Sramana Mitra’s latest column for Small Business Trends, Success Story of an Indian College Drop Out, here.    

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