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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Is there anything your group does differently from others in valuing a company? Paul: As we’re all successful entrepreneurs ourselves, we’ve been on that side of the table. We understand motivation and what a poor capitalization structure can do to motivation. For example, just because an
Conflicts Of Interest In Investment Banking: What Is The “Right” Answer?
By guest author Jim Heinzman [A few weeks ago, I wrote a Forbes column titled Financial Reform: Legal Vs. Right in which I discussed the interrogation of Goldman Sachs executives by members of Congress following the SEC’s lawsuit against the firm and argued that even if not guilty in a legal sense, Goldman and its
Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 2)
By guest author Tony Scott Outsourced Product Development Anand: Let me fast forward to where we are today and what we do. We are positioned as leaders in the outsourced product development business. The way we define outsourced product development is, in our simplistic way, that we are the Flextronics of the software industry. What
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made in the past 12 months? Paul: Four. It’s probably a reflection of the fact that we’re a group of individuals who invest together, not a fund. When we set it out from when we knew the numbers we were aiming
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So, appssavvy is one of Wider Wake deals? Paul: Yes, appssavvy is one our deals; KlipSmart is the company that we built years ago [before Wider Wake] . . . Smartclip is a company within Thomas Falk’s (one of our cofounders) empire, and that’s a video ad
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Paul Olliver, Wider Wake Networks (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So, right now you have about 20 members in Wider Wake. How do you prescreen for your membership? Paul: The membership criteria are quite tight, actually. All of the founding members have very applicable experience in digital media advertising. And that’s also reflected in the regular
James Heinzman
James Heinzman is Managing Director of Securities Solutions at Actimize and has 20 years of compliance experience. He leads the development of a technology-based risk management strategy for brokerage compliance. Prior to rejoining Actimize, Mr. Heinzman was a managing director at Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for business supervision and surveillance in the Global
Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 1)
By guest author Tony Scott Company Introduction and History I recently interviewed Dr. Anand Deshpande, the founder and CEO of Persistent Systems. Persistent, based in Pune, India, has the tag line “Partners in Innovation.” Persistent believes that its outsourced software product development services allow its customers to minimize time-to-market, improve the quality of their products,
