Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When they come to you, should they have a complete team? Ho: It is usually two or three people, but we have backed single founders before. Irina: What’s the most important character trait a founder can have that will clinch the deal? Ho: One word that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 1)

This is the first part of the interview with Nati Shalom, CTO and founder of GigaSpaces, where he and Sramana discuss role of Microsoft, improvisations in the sales cycles, standards, analytics and new market and opportunities for entrepreneurs in the cloud. This part explores the general adoption of cloud computing from Nati’s point of view.

Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 10)

By guest author Tony Scott Hiring Global Talent Tony: What about your external hiring process – you clearly can’t grow on a global scale only through internal growth while you are building this capability? Vivek: In the meantime, when you hire people you hire the best. Today when we hire people, we don’t look at

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think about the total available market (TAM) when you invest? Ho: That’s a good question. We talk about that a lot. We do, obviously, like large market opportunities, but we also have the philosophy that it’s really hard to predict what the next giant

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Outsourcing: Vivek Chopra of Computer Sciences Corp. (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Building a Global Culture Internally Tony: So what are you focusing on to help CSC gain the ability to build talent that can operate globally? You talked about moving people back and forth. Are there also internal training and development programs that you’re working on?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you compare TechStars to Y Combinator? Brad: They are similar types of programs. Y Combinator was the first, TechStars was the second. The historical difference between the two programs has been that when TechStars was started, it was very much mentor driven. So, if you

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ho: Certainly, dividends are one way, but you could also do shareholder buybacks. Public companies do this all the time. They do a stock buyback program if they think that their stock is relatively undervalued, or they think that’s a good use of capital. The board of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Fred van den Bosch, CEO Of Librato (Part 7)

Final part of the interview with Fred van den Bosch – topics covered include Private Clouds, Entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud and some of the pioneering work happening in cloud space.