Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott “Always On” around the Globe Tony: So you are talking about creating your own IP – how has that impacted the kind of services you provide? Is this also part of the drive toward what some have said is pushing even more of the services off the CIO’s plate?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Alan: Another aspect – and this may be more personal to me than it is to Springboard as an organization – is that one of the other major challenges for angel organizations is communicating with entrepreneurs. When you see as many deals as we do here –

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott Building Competency Tony: How has the relationship with your parent Tata Communications helped you beyond brand recognition? Shirdhar: Given that we have trust at Tata Communications, they would always support our trying to position ourselves higher up the chain.  But I can’t constantly make fresh demands on our parent company

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You mentioned AngelSoft. How do you use AngelSoft? Alan: Very sparingly. We’ll probably cease using it at the end of this year. We’re not particularly fans of proprietary software. We deal with a tremendous amount of confidential information. We use it because a lot of the

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Labor Arbitrage or Value-Added Services? Tony: So if you look at these businesses overall, what percentage today is value-added services vs. labor arbitrage compared to five years ago, and what do you expect it to be five years from now? David: I think, taking TCTS as example, the first thing

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you talk a little bit about venture firms in Florida? Alan: For the venture firms that work in Florida, that invest in Florida, that means they may be domiciled in the state, but there are also others such as Intersouth,  Aurora, and Noro-Moseley that are

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Evolution from Infrastructure to the Desktop Tony: Shridhar, since you have obviously been with the company for a long time, let me ask you, how did the original piece of the company get started, and how have you evolved from that point to what you are providing today? Shridhar: When

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Those angels, are they all based in and around Jacksonville? Alan: Generally so. I say generally because there are some outliers. We’ve got some people from Savannah, we’ve got some people in Tampa and that area, but generally, in the first two funds that we built

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