Sramana: Early-stage entrepreneurs are always wondering about the transition from an entrepreneur-run business to an outsider-run business. What are your thoughts? Bill Daniel: My first experience with this was Oracle, when it was a small company known as Relational Software Inc. Larry Ellison is legendary, but in those days he was just Larry. I watched
Kon Leong is the chief executive officer of ZL Technologies. He studied at the IIT in Bombay, holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a degree in computer science from Concordia University. He spent more than eight years in various IT management and engineering positions and has created several successful startups, such as GigaLabs,
Sramana Mitra: We have been hearing about hybrid, public and private cloud for a while. We talked with all sorts of thought keaders in this space. We would like to hear some insights. Vishnu Bhat: Let me give you a view of our evolution in the space of what we call ecosystems for enterprises and
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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Sramana: How did the transition between Sergient and AllWebLeads happen? Bill Daniel: I was contacted by Ross Garber, one of the founders at Vignette, who had been contacted by two young guys in their twenties who owned AllWebLeads. They were looking to create a board of directors and had created a profitable company via bootstrapping.
Sramana Mitra: I would like to spend some time on three of your clients. Explain some interesting trends and applications of cloud computing you are seeing. Vishnu Bhat: We have seen the interest in cloud computing and the setting up of an ecosystem around it. It started out with retail initially, but we are now
Today’s roundtable was yet another global event with entrepreneurs pitching from Brazil, India, the United States and Europe. UTripz First, Eduardo Cardoso from Minas Gerais, Brazil, pitched UTripz, which he wants to build up to be an ad-supported content site featuring the top 300 travel destinations in Latin America, starting with the top 100 in