Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Randy: So, getting back to our revenue model, it’s membership, renewals, and then we rely on sponsors to help us grow and underwrite our employees. Finally, we charge an administrative fee for companies to present, and that fee – in smaller chapters it’s less and in robust

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do these local chapters operate? Randy: They have great autonomy, but conversely, they enjoy the structure and the model that we’ve developed over the past ten years. It started off in the East Bay of Northern California. Keiretsu Forum started in September 2000, and the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fifth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. Our guest today is Randy Williams, founder and CEO of Keiretsu Forum, a growing angel network that currently has 850 investors in 19 chapters around the world. The forum has made 265 investments

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 12)

By guest author Tony Scott Human Capital – The Critical Limiting Factor? Tony: Your three key points about the future of outsourcing all make good sense. Those three points that I picked up that are as follows: One is that moving out of the labor arbitrage value proposition and into a pure competency-based value proposition

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 11)

By guest author Tony Scott Outsourcing and the Mind of the CEO Tony: Anand, how have you changed the way you have gone about marketing and selling your services over the past few years? Have you changed your approach since the downturn?

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 10)

By guest author Tony Scott Industry Trends Driving Outsourcing – The End of Software? Tony: Do you see other trends in the software industry that will drive more companies to outsource product development? Anand: Well, a key trend is this whole cloud computing business. As people start to look at things that can be a

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Labor Arbitrage Cost Differentials Tony: Anand, what is the cost structure differential right now that you are seeing between the United States and India? Anand: We are still about one-third the cost of doing the same project in the United States.

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 8)

By guest author Tony Scott Product Development – Indian Style vs. Silicon Valley Tony: Anand, how do you compare the process of product development in your company with the way software companies traditionally work? Anand: The entire value of what we have done in the Indian software industry has been our ability to use junior

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