Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 1)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev After a few hiccups, it was great to finally meet Indus Khaitan, partner at The Morpheus, an incubator out of India, face-to-face over lunch. We were talking to Khaitan as part of a new series, an exploration of how business incubators are doing their part in advancing

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s switch the discussion to security; what are your perspectives on cloud security? PS: Security is definitely part of it, along with the larger governance issues of outsourcing, hosting, or moving applications to the cloud. I am also talking about moving integration into the cloud .

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you help entrepreneurs if you get a chance to know them better? Dave: If we got very far along in the process and didn’t for some reason decide to invest, or the entrepreneur didn’t decide to pursue with us – or vice versa –

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Take me through how a SaaS vendor like MercuryGate sits in this. Is MercuryGate receiving data through Liaison, or do you send data to MercuryGate?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about integration you have done so far? Would you share your thoughts on what role integration has played, how expensive it been, and for your future plans, how are you thinking about integration costs and so forth?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you think in terms of returns? Dave: Every company we get involved in, we’d like to believe has the potential to be worth $1 billion someday. The multiple over time is not important to us. What’s important is the scale of the venture and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your personal daily challenges? Lewis: Personally, I’d love to help every organization that came through our door, and every single entrepreneur, and be able to provide them with, if not an introduction, at the very least resources of tools and readings they could use

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: My other question was, you mentioned that you have moved your transportation management system to cloud. Would you elaborate on that? Is that industry specific? Is it a niche technology? PS: This is an interesting case I think in the light of what I have already

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