Launching and Scaling a Security Startup During an Out-of-Favor Time: HyTrust President Eric Chiu (Part 2)

Sramana: What led you to Hytrust? Eric Chiu: I was running sales and business development for Cemaphore. I was in the process of evaluating some other job offers and different startups and I had the board members from those companies calling me to figure out what decision I had made. During that period one of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It is coherence of the data and coherence of the search engine´s structure as well that operates on that data. Kon Leong: Yes. The retention policy has to be coherent. If each title is just throwing away data, it is a meaningless system. These are just some of the differentiations. We could go

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Thursday, September 19 – 188th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 188th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 19, 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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Launching and Scaling a Security Startup During an Out-of-Favor Time: HyTrust President Eric Chiu (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Eric Chiu is the co-founder and president of HyTrust, a virtualization security company. He has more than 13 years of experience in high-tech management and finance. Most recently he was the VP of sales and business development for Cemaphore Systems. Prior to Cemaphore, he led business

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 3)

KL: Yes. You said you covered a lot of unstructured data, and you have talked to a lot of companies like Autonomy, for example. I would venture to say that this field has nothing well understood. Because of the misunderstanding, practically all of the implementation of large enterprises is [set up] to fail. This snippet

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CEO Transition, Founder Liquidity, and More: Bill Daniel, CEO AllWebLeads (Part 7)

Sramana: A private liquidity exit can be bad if the founder is crucial to the success of the business. I saw a similar situation where the founder did not allow a team to get built around him. I am surprised the investors allowed him to have that liquidity event. They needed to raise money, and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 2)

Kon Leong: One customer is in the financial sector – Wells Fargo. All enterprises struggle with unstructured data, and typically they come from various areas to manage the proliferation of data and the duplication of data, which impacts storage, manage data for compliance – regulations require them to keep certain data and to be able

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Vishnu Bhat, VP and Head of Cloud Services at Infosys (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Through this there is a whole operational infrastructure – a reporting, monitoring and IT management infrastructure – that is required. What is your approach to that? Vishnu Bhat: The cloud ecosystem harbors a productized solution. When we approach our enterprise clients, we predominantly offer service and solution value together. Let’s get back to

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