1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Fabulousyarn

By guest author Praveen Kumar Fabulousyarn is a Web retailer that deals in luxury yarn and knitting accessories. The company also sells through a brick-and-mortar shop in Tivoli, New York. Fabulousyarn has positioned itself as a niche site for high-quality yarns that caters to women passionate about knitting. The company evolved from a hand-knit sweater

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Outsourcing: Raju Reddy, Chairman And CEO Of Sierra Atlantic (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott Managing Across Cultures Tony: There are clearly some distinct cultural differences between the way people approach business, how they deal with customers, with each other, and with management in India and China, compared to, say, the United States.  What kinds of challenges does that present for you in terms of

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 3)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: How can entrepreneurs who are seeking funding reach you? Eric: I think you have heard this from a lot of people. It is not rocket science: Go on LinkedIn, figure out who knows us, and get them to vouch for you as somebody they know and respect. There are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Michael Aginsky, CTO Of Gibbons P.C. (Part 1)

Sramana and Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C., discuss cloud computing adoption from legal industry perspective in the following interview. The legal industry has evolved slowly but significantly and benefitted from tremendous changes in information technology over the past decade. Despite the challenges and opportunities technology presents, law firms are actively gearing up to beat competition and get out of the old ‘relationship’ mode of doing business.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik SM: I suppose you believe that the advent of cloud computing has been democratizing those small enterprises and their access to technology? RT: What I believe is that for small companies that have IT, what the cloud enables them to do is have a strategy of not

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Eric: We view ourselves as unique for a handful of reasons. We have six out of eight entrepreneurs at the fund who actually run companies day to day. I think that is a really good model in terms of keeping us in our mindset as founders. When most of your

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Manu Kumar, Founder and Chief Firestarter, K9 Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Ravi Bulusu Irina: Do you have any interesting stories? Manu: Sure. I met one founder in December 2008. I had my second and third meetings with him in January. The company had not even have been formed yet. It was only a single person or, rather, the founding team

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: José Almandoz, CIO Of Novell (Part 7)

Given the huge market size predictions from Gartner, IDC and more, it is but natural that there are bound to be opportunities in cloud for entrepreneurs to come up with innovative solutions and address the market needs. In the final part of the interview, Sramana and Jose discuss entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud. Jose highlights the fact that Cloud computing is granting small- to medium-sized businesses access to the technological resources they need to compete with the big enterprises; therefore sparking some much needed innovation. By having the same access to data centers, server farms and software platforms, cloud computing is helping to create a fair playing field.