Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 3)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: How about a team? Do they have to have a complete team? Nova: No, they have to have the technical lead and the product lead. Irina: Is there any specific character trait you can identify? Nova: I’m usually looking for people who are on the technical side. They have

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: GCI created this “order to cash” service spin-off. Tell me more about what happened and what made you decide to make this move? Are you providing that same “order-to-cash” offering, which is cloud based, to various telecom and utility providers now?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: From all the sources, do you have an idea how many pitches you get a month? Nova: I would say it’s probably about five to ten a month. Irina: Out of those five to ten, how many deserve a closer look? Nova: Usually one or maybe two.

Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: It would it would seem to me that there’s a huge value proposition in someone being able to say: “We’ve got this kind of talent and we could apply it when you need it. And then when you don’t need the world’s most brilliant expert on RF antenna design,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In bringing all of this together, what do you see as entrepreneurial opportunities? What are the blue-sky needs for newer solutions in cloud? It sounds like you have done something entrepreneurial yourself by taking this whole order to cash management to the cloud and spun it

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott The Nature of R&D and Innovation Tony: So, your focus, the heart of the service provided by GlobalLogic, is to manage the R&D process for your clients? Peter: Correct, we call on the CTO. IT services always calls on the CIO. Tony: Tell me a little bit about how you

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 1)

By guest author Irina Patterson This is the twenty-fourth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Nova Spivak, a serial entrepreneur, who is currently the co-founder an president of Live Matrix and an angel investor soon to be based in Los Angeles. Irina: Hi, Nova. Let’s start with with your

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: The scenarios that you have described where the workflow has changed significantly, do you see those as opportunities for other small vendors to come in and solve some of these problems with technology? Are there any vendors that are offering you ways to manage these kinds

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