Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 3)

Sramana: Let’s talk about the rest of your team. You were in business school, but you had technical co-founders. How did this team come together? Derek Roos: At the company that I was working for while I was going to business school, there was another individual there who became my co-founder. He had a technical

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Can you identify open problems for our readers? What is missing out there? What would you like to do if you had certain other resources available to you? Calvin Carter: There are a lot of opportunities in the mobile space since it is a phenomenal space to be in. It is growing, it

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July 11 – Next 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

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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Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 2)

Sramana: What specifically do you mean when you say application development? Are you talking about web applications or mobile applications? Derek Roos: Both, actually. When we say applications, we are talking about business applications. The Mendix app platform means web and mobile at the same time. Our vision for applications is that it should not

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Calvin Carter, Founder and President, Bottle Rocket (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Are you familiar with a company called Trion Worlds? Calvin Carter: No. SM: Trion is a really hot gaming company. They work in collaboration with HBO and they released a TV series and a game together. The program is called Defiance.

Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You describe a bit of the insourcing trend in the UK. Is that not happening elsewhere in Europe? Roop Singh: I recall three to four years ago there was a lot of discussion around the Eastern European countries, whether it is Romania or Poland, for example. A lot of companies in Germany specifically

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Building an App Platform Company from the Netherlands: Mendix CEO Derek Roos (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Derek Roos is the CEO if Mendix, an enterprise app platform company looking to bridge the gap between business and IT, making business application development dramatically easier, faster and collaborative. Derek earned a master of science degree in business administration from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is

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Outsourcing: Interview with Roop Singh, VP and Head for North America, Europe and JAPAC at Wipro Consulting Services (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: And the risk is also built into that, because I suppose you do that across a portfolio product so the risk is mitigated by working on multiple products like that and not just one. You mentioned there was an acquisition you made in New Jersey. Can you talk a little bit about that?

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