On The Way To 100 Million Dollars In SaaS Revenue: Vocus CEO Rick Rudman (Part 2)

SM: Why did the deal fall through? Sounds as though they had commitment issues. RR: We never got a good answer regarding their rationale for cancelling the deal.

Entrepreneurship Education: Incubator Business Models

You have read my last Forbes Column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery. With unemployment soaring, I discussed how incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs. We’ve also discussed the topic of why incubators fail at length here. One of the issues that came up in the incubator discussion as a cause for

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1M/1M: Ambassadors Finalized

I wanted to give you a quick update on 1M/1M. We had an unexpectedly large number of people who applied to become 1M/1M ambassadors. Over the past six weeks, we have worked together, ironed out what we’re going to do with the program, and figured out who is going to do what.

On The Way To 100 Million Dollars In SaaS Revenue: Vocus CEO Rick Rudman (Part 1)

Rick Rudman is the co-founder, CEO, president, and chairman of Vocus. Prior to founding Vocus he was one of the co-founders of Dataway Corporations, which developed software applications for large corporations. He earned a degree in accounting after spending four years in the Air Force and is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland.

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Servicing IT: ServiceNow CEO Fred Luddy (Part 7)

SM: Are there even any companies out there that have technologies worth acquiring that are in what you term the ERP for the IT market? FL: Some, but not too many. Companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Computer Associates made done dozens and dozens of acquisitions. They would approach the ERP for the IT field with

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Balaji S.

From Balaji Sowmyanarayanan’s review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra for the Fake Geek Limited blog: “Unlike the usual business books that tell the strategy of a success story post facto, Vision India 2020 is an imagined retrospective circa 2020. The book features ideas and strategies that are likely success stories in 2020 – outlined

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Servicing IT: ServiceNow CEO Fred Luddy (Part 6)

SM: Your company has been disruptive to the marketplace, which has forced your competitors to change their entire business model to address your success. FL: Exactly. It’s similar to when Southwest came on the scene and dropped a whole new way of doing business for airlines into the market. We have a very different model.

Vision India 2020 Book Review: Arjun Malhotra

Arjun Malhotra is the chairman and CEO of Headstrong, a U.S.-based IT services company.  He is also the chairman of TiE Global, the world’s largest not-for-profit organization for entrepreneurs.  In the 1970s, Arjun Malhotra co-founded HCL Technologies, one of the first Indian IT companies.  Here is his review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra: