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Thursday, April 12: 122nd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 122nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Roundtable Recap: April 3 – Rendezvous In Bangalore
On April 3rd, I spent an entire day with entrepreneurs in Bangalore, and we did three roundtables with 15 entrepreneur pitches. These roundtables were held at the Citrix Executive Briefing Center, hosted by Ravi Gururaj, Vice President of Products for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix and also head of the Citrix Startup Accelerator in
Demandware Riding High on IPO
Analysts estimate that global e-commerce revenues will grow from $316 billion in 2010 to $653 billion by 2015. Further, they estimate that the market for cloud-enabled e-commerce platform services will grow 21% annually from 2010-2015 to reach $11.3 billion, from $4.3 billion estimated in 2010. Counting on this growth, e-commerce platform services provider Demandware recently made
The Future of Software Development Is Here. Are You Ready Yet?
By guest author Mridula Velagapudi As I wrote in a piece earlier, as a part of technology evolution, software development has evolved and matured a lot, and the present trends show that there is going to be a paradigm shift in the developers’ roles. The question is: are you ready yet? With Web 3.0, the exponential
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I got what you’re doing. The question I’m asking is for other entrepreneurs, who are starting out now, what opportunities or gaps would you point them toward? Matthew J. Schitz: In cloud storage and backup, or in cloud computing in general? SM: Start with cloud storage and backup, and then we can look
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What’s the revenue level of your company? Matthew J. Schitz: Revenues we don’t release, I’m sorry. We’re a privately held company. But our revenues are significant. And they’re growing quickly. We’re growing at 50% quarter over quarter right now. SM: Just give us a range. Is it a $50 million company, a $100
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I guess the obvious question, one you must get all the time, is, is it safe? Matthew J. Schitz: Yes. It’s interesting, because when I was CEO at DocuSign, at the same stage of the company, we were pioneering electronic signatures. The market at that time was signing things on paper. The first
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 1)
Cloud storage is a cost-effective way for businesses to secure data or quickly recover them when they’ve been lost. And there are plenty of cloud storage companies out there serving businesses of all sizes in every possible industry. Though one of many, Symform offers its clients something a little different, as my talk with CEO Matthew