By guest author Ravi Bulusu CionSystems offers identity management solutions that provide IT departments in organizations single, centralized federated identity management for the enterprise and different cloud solutions. The company focuses on three main areas: account management (provisioning and de-provisioning of enterprise accounts), managing multiple identities and keeping them in synch, and audit compliance and
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Right. Do you see any issues in the angel ecosystem? Is there anything that can be improved? Ray: I think the key thing is, investors like us have to get involved, to educate entrepreneurs. For example, Silicon Valley is the best ecosystem in the whole wide world. And for
By guest author Irina Patterson This is the twenty-eighth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Elizabeth Marchi, fund coordinator at Frontier Angel Fund LLC. It’s a member managed pooled fund – that is, they review deals together and then vote to invest their pooled capital. Their investments range from
By guest author Shaloo Shalini The third and final part of this series discusses formulating an implementation strategy and discovering blue-sky opportunities in the cloud. Formulate your integration strategy It is evident from industry-wide trends that a new business or startup has minimal integration points to deal with compared to companies with traditionally managed IT
By guest author Shaloo Shalini In the first part of this post, we named three things those considering cloud adoption must do. Again, they are: 1. Investigate your cloud adoption objectives and opportunities. 2. Formulate your integration strategy. 3. Discover your blue-sky opportunities in the cloud. Part 2 will cover investigating opportunities, and we’ll finish
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What do you think is the most important thing that angel-backed founders can do to increase their chances of success? Ray: The execution. It means you have to work with partners — work with partners like us, work with the team, and execute the plan. They also be able
By guest author Shaloo Shalini As an engrossed spectator witnessing the charge of the cloud computing brigade, deafened by the din and fascinated by the exhilaration and anticipation around cloud computing across the globe, I am reminded of the saying sometimes attributed to Voltaire: Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ. (No offense meant to
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When you invest in e-commerce companies, do they have to be located in your geographical area? Dick: That’s interesting. The one that exited here was a virtual company. One of the founders was here, one was in Boulder, Colorado, and one was up in New York