From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 2)

Tomas Gorny: When I was living in Germany, I was 17 years old and had learned the language. I decided that the PC industry is growing, so I started a PC distribution company. We were buying different PC components from vendors, assembling them to computers, and then selling them to businesses and individuals. What I started

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 5)

Sebastian Stadil: An example would be a healthcare provider that makes a survey of all the cloud management platforms available in the market and determines that none meets all of its requirements. They start using cloud and they build their own tooling. After a while, they find that the processes that they’re bringing to the

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $15 Million in Venture Capital: Gravitant CEO Mohammed Farooq (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We continue to see exciting enterprise software companies being built by entrepreneurs who have roots in the consulting business and who have taken their domain knowledge and customer insights to develop compelling products to solve specific problems. Gravitant is yet another case in point. Sramana: Mohammed,

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From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  I see so many people making excuses for why they are not successful – discrimination, fate, luck, all external factors. Read Tomas Gorny’s story. I hope it will give you some perspective and some attitude adjustment that hopefully propels success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 4)

Sebastian Stadil: A developer may choose to use Scalr and then they use Scalr for agility purposes. As adoption grows inside of the organization and their developers start using it as well, that’s when IT starts to use Scalr as a tool to enforce policies. Scalr is this platform that allows for the management of

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Catching Up On Readings: World Cup Fever

This world cup has seen some of the most unpredictable outcomes, upsetting most predictions including mine. Spain, the defending champion is out. England, Italy, and Portugal have been eliminated. Pleasant surprise is that the US team has made it to the pre-quarter finals. This Wall Street Journal piece looks at some outstanding performances so far. For this

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: There’s been a bit of progress in the startup ecosystem in India. Its growth is slower than I thought. I started covering that ecosystem in an online blog back in 2005. I thought it would move a lot faster. It depends on if you look at the glass being half-full or half-empty. I

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sebastian Stadil, CEO of Scalr (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You drive the management server that manages the logic of the grouping as well as the actions? We do have a lot of cloud computing stories. At this point, the readers are quite immersed in the cloud computing applications. I have done literally over 600 of these kinds of interviews. Maybe not all

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