Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott Creating a Culture of Innovation Tony: Going back to your comment earlier about the cultural differences between an R&D-driven organization and an IT organization, the kinds of people that are needed in those kinds of organizations do have to think pretty differently. So, there’s a big cultural difference for the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 5)

By guest author Irina Patterson Nova: Today, the world of angel investing is completely the Wild West. It’s extremely hard to find investors. It’s extremely hard to get them to give you money. And even when they do, it’s not very much. So, there’s a gap right now. Basically, the first one to three million

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures (Part 1)

By guest author Irina Patterson This is the twenty-fifth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to George Zachary, general partner of Charles River Ventures, one of the nation’s oldest early-stage venture capital firms. CRV invests in the data communications and software & services sectors and provides entrepreneurs with access to

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott The Challenge of Finding Strong Middle Management Tony: Are you finding it more difficult to attract and retain the kind of people you need? The services GlobalLogic provides clearly require the high end of the skill set compared to outsourced call center services, for example.

Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott The IT Pyramid in the United States and India Tony: People don’t like to be changed or face change – it’s a scary proposition for many – but the technology sector is built on the fundamental concept that change must happen – ever better, ever faster, ever more capable technological

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What do you think a single most important thing that angels could do to increase their chances of success? Nova: I advise a bunch of entrepreneurs and help with some of their companies, and the biggest problem entrepreneurs have today with angel funding is actually getting angel funding because

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: LOGOPremiums

By guest author Praveen Kumar How much of a consumer’s decision to click on a URL is based on domain name? Domain name plays a big part, says Jeff Levine, and is testing his hypothesis through his company LOGOpremiums, a network of B2B e-catalogs that sells promotional items in which each e-catalog website uses a

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott On Course for a Collision? The Future of Product and Services Companies Tony: In that environment [where it’s more about solving business problems than technology problems], much of the technology becomes totally contextual and therefore less important and of much less value. Outsourcing services companies that are only focusing on

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