1M/1M And Rackspace Announce Startup Challenge To Give Cloud Ventures A Lift

One Million by One Million (1M/1M) and Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company, today announced the Rackspace Cloud – 1M/1M Startup Challenge. This competition is designed to give a boost to entrepreneurs growing, developing, and launching cloud-based startups. Through an application process, five cloud startups will be judged finalists and they will present their businesses during

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 5)

Sramana: In three years you gained huge traction. How dramatically has your adoption curve changed? Matt Mickiewicz: We have been pushing international expansion heavily. We are seeing which markets work for us. The growth curve has continued very strongly. Our CEO has done a very good job. Sramana: Have you changed CEOs or have you

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Catching Up On Readings: Technology, Privacy, Law Enforcement

Today’s Washington Post addresses the difficulty in balancing safety, privacy and civil liberties, an issue that has again come to the fore following this week’s terrible event’s in Boston. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 1)

Bob Tennant is the chief executive officer at Recommind, a lead provider of e-discovery, enterprise search and automatic categorization software. Bob has degrees from the University of Victoria, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He has many years of experience in the IT business, having worked for Swiftsure Capital and Sun Microsystems,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I talked to some of the Thought Leaders in Big Data interviewees who think that the problem is not so much the data part. The real challenge is designing algorithms, especially the machine learning algorithms that can take the data and do interesting things with it. The data itself is really not as

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Should You Move To Silicon Valley?

I run the only global, virtual incubator for startups in the world. As such, we constantly get questions from entrepreneurs around the United States, and around the world, about moving to Silicon Valley. My take on the subject is that Silicon Valley is expensive, the talent war challenging for startups without major VC backing, and

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 4)

Sramana: Why did you decide to raise money? Matt Mickiewicz: To expand our marketing and increase customer acquisition. We also wanted to pursue international expansion. We used the money to hire a chief marketing officer, a chief financial officer and expand internationally, which included language expansion. Recruiting in San Francisco is much easier when you

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I know there is a lot of startup activity going on in that space. What are some interesting startups that you have seen, and what problems are they solving? John Michelsen: I will start with the security space. You almost can’t talk somebody out of doing interesting innovation in security. My first prescription

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