Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That brings me to an observation that there has been a dramatic drop in networking-related venture or even angel deals. Can you comment on that? Rick Tinsley: For many years most networking customers were just happy buying things from Cisco – you don’t get fired for buying things from Cisco. We have seen

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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 6)

Sramana: Where are you at in terms of scale? Bruce Johnson: We handle over 52 billion dollars of healthcare supply chain orders annually. That is a significant portion of spend that we are automating. Sramana: Are you a profitable company? Bruce Johnson: Yes.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder and VP of Product Design at Zumobi (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Facebook and LinkedIn are doing the same. They switched away from banner ads to pushing content in-stream. What works really well is if you can do content marketing in-stream. John SanGiovanni: That is exactly right. Many of the publishers that are doing in-stream native advertising are doing it in a site-specific way. The

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Given that that is what you do, what trends do you see in the market right now? What are trends you are anticipating? Rick Tinsley: The number one trend is affecting our business and all networking businesses right now. It is the move towards virtualizations.

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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 5)

Sramana: In that initial 9- to 12-month period when you were able to leverage the other sales forces, how many customers were you able to obtain? Bruce Johnson: My recollection is that during the first 12 months we signed up 50 IDNs, or integrated delivery networks. Sramana: Those were the buyers, right? Bruce Johnson: Yes.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder and VP of Product Design at Zumobi (Part 1)

John SanGiovanni is co-founder and vice president of product design at Zumobi, a company specialized in creating innovative apps and in-app advertising for the mobile industry through its platform called ZBi (Zumobi Brand integration). John has more than 13 years of experience in mobile interface design. Prior to Zumobi he worked at Microsoft Research. In

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Roundtable Recap: July 11 – A Romp Through Some Global Entrepreneurship Hubs

Today’s roundtable gave us a taste of entrepreneurial activity in Chile, Canada and India. GapJumpers First up was Kedar Iyer and Petar Vujosevic from Santiago, Chile, pitching GapJumpers, a neat idea to get hiring managers to ask questions from potential talent, thus developing both a dialog and understanding of their expertise. Of course, the mechanics

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