Hero banner

categories

HOT TOPICS

Blog » Archive for January, 2014

Outsourcing: Ed Cross, Executive Director – Procurement & HRO at Xchanging (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Jan 17th 2014

Having been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year by The Economic Times back in 2010, Xchanging continues to provide leading solutions to a wide range of industries across the globe. Ed Cross, Xchanging’s Executive Director, takes us on a quick tour of the business outsourcing landscape discussing the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing the industry.

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Featured Videos

January 23 – 202nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jan 17th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 202nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 23, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Roundtable Recap: January 16 – Investors Fund Businesses, Not Concepts

Posted on Friday, Jan 17th 2014

During today’s roundtable, we had a couple of formal slide presentations, and a number of shorter dialogues. Direct Dialect First, Thelson Richardson from Miami, Florida, pitched Direct Dialect, a language teaching application. Thelson started off by saying that he wants to build 700 products that covers English to Spanish, Dutch to French and every other

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Bootstrapping with Services in India: Srishtisoft CEO Ajay Sharma (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Jan 17th 2014

Sramana: You had three verticals; media companies, healthcare companies, and finance companies. Which vertical did you decide to focus on when it was time to build a product, and why? Ajay Sharma: When we looked at the financial companies, we realized that it was a market area that we understood well, but we also recognized

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Mike Pellerin, Director, Enterasys University (Extreme Networks) (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Jan 16th 2014

Mike Pellerin: Correct. Now I have a question for you. I have been approached for a couple of K-12 courses as well, for the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. A number of school districts have expressed interest in recommending some of our material to their students. Have you seen any trends on that? Sramana Mitra:

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Jan 16th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What would you say are the key milestones that you have accomplished, based on almost four years of being in business? Matt Pfeil: From my perspective, I think that open source as a business is really hard because you create something as an open source project that you don’t own. You throw up

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

201st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jan 16th 2014

Today’s 201st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, January 16, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Hacker News
() Comments

201st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jan 16th 2014

Today’s 201st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 16, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Hacker News
() Comments