Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 3)

SM: Can you give us more detail about what Search For Common Ground does? CR: Their work is divided into grass roots community work where they help build capacity for peace at the community level. They also do media work and have radio and TV shows. Their content is to help communities communicate and increase

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Catching Up on Readings: Design In The 21st Century

Time for another round of recap since the last one on May 10 … See what you have missed, and catch up.

Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 2)

SM: As you look back on your career, do you feel your decisions were strategic, planned decisions? CR: It might have been! I remember my first day at work. I walked into this big building and I was 1 of 2 women technical engineers. Women were just entering the technical workforce back then. I was

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Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 1)

What do you do when you have had a wildly successful career and are happily retired? If you are Carol Realini you spend some time doing global humanitarian work and then you start a new business venture! Carol, CEO and founder of Obopay, has found not only a second career but also a potential opportunity

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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 8)

SM: Are your sales initially going to be direct? MT: Initially yes. I really believe that is the only way to do it initially, and probably the best way overall. I will mention that we have had a lot of partner interest so I am not throwing that option out the door. If you think

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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 7)

SM: When you started the company you identified the problem. After that what was the evolution of building the company? MT: Let’s talk about the customer validation part because that was in the beginning. We built a proof of concept, and while we were building it we went out and hired a third party storage

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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 6)

SM: You are not alone in the market, but I think you are going after a niche which has been ignored somewhat. MT: Yes. We mentioned earlier the WAN concepts, where people are compressing the data because of the narrow pipes. Companies have done it for backup solutions as well. That is a huge sub-category

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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 5)

SM: Let’s talk about Ocarina. What is the genesis and why? MT: Once I knew that Citrix was doing well I was read to turn it over to somebody else. I asked the CIO of Citrix what his top three problems were. Application deployment was number one on his list. As far as I am

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