Your Virtual Travel Concierge Has Arrived : Mobissimo CEO Beatrice Tarka (Part 2)

SM: Where did you get the idea for your current venture? Did you have prior domain experience in the travel segment? BT: First and foremost at Mobissimo we are travelers ourselves. We have felt the pain of endless attempts to search and book tickets online.

Indian Entrepreneurs: Here’s One for You

Folks, I would like to point Indian entrepreneurs to another gap that I see, which may be fertile ground for new startups out of India …

Your Virtual Travel Concierge Has Arrived : Mobissimo CEO Beatrice Tarka (Part 1)

Since its launch in October of 2003, travel search engine Mobissimo.com has created a staunch following of “MobiFans”. With a sweet spot in international travel it has been very successful catering to a niche other travel sites have largely neglected. There are over 300,000 travel properties in the world yet online travel agents (OTAs) focus

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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 9)

SM: What are some of the more interesting projects going on in the OpenSource space? BB: Recently I have been spending a lot of time with non-profits which are using OpenSource software in very creative ways. One example is the Grameen Foundation which runs an OpenSource project developing software to run a microfinance bank. They

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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 8)

SM: Let’s focus a bit on the OpenSource universe itself. How do you see the movement changing and what do you see around you that is significant? Take WordPress for example; they just raised a ton of money. I run my website on WordPress and I don’t pay a dime. BB: What is interesting is

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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 7)

SM: Do you have all of the project management capabilities as well? BB: We are definitely a lot more than just a bug database. We also show you the features customers are asking for. We can let your customers vote on potential features. When your customer base starts ranking their priorities you gain incredible visibility.

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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 6)

SM: Let’s talk some more about commercial accounts. In a way Subversion is like your Trojan Horse to get into a company! BB: That’s funny! I prefer to refer to it as the thin edge of the wedge! At least that is not as bad as the term viral. I hate it when I hear

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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 5)

SM: CollabNet is a commercial company which secures traditional business contracts, right? Companies pay CollabNet versus CollabNet being an OpenSource provider? How does that all work? BB: At one level we are software as a service. We charge for access on a per-user, per-month basis. Over the past few years we have developed our processes

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