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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are other important factors for you when you make your decision about any particular entrepreneur? Anu: One of the biggest factors is, Is this something you’ve done before? Are you someone who’s worked at Oracle and is now doing a database company? Do you know
Outsourcing: Naresh Lakhanpal And Hiro Notaney Of Patni Computer Systems (Part 4)
By guest author Tony Scott Naresh: So, once again, it’s giving people permission to say it’s okay to be different, and it really is because we believe that diversity of thought, diversity of mind is going to get us further in the end. I would say that it’s the idea of having permission to do
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think about the return you would like to have over a certain period? Anu: We’re different from a VC firm in that we don’t have IRR [internal return on investment], and we don’t have LPs [limited partners]. It’s our own money.
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 6)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I think when you talk in terms of e-mail or CRM, the basic e-mail or CRM, these are horizontal functionalities. You would definitely have an advantage if you use somebody else’s solution that has been built, tested, and scaled, and something that is scalable on this
Outsourcing: Naresh Lakhanpal And Hiro Notaney Of Patni Computer Systems (Part 3)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: I think the thing to look at when you talk about cultural issues is that you have to build a team from the top all the way down, and the culture has to work all the way down. Naresh: Right. Tony: It also has to be a culture that
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do the angels gain access to the deals that are received? Anu: Everything is done through Angelsoft. I think we were one of the first users of Angelsoft. Most angel groups use it. Irina: What do you like about Angelsoft? Is there any fees? Anu:
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: Around 2006–2007, I ended up starting another company called 411Sync, which was doing mobile search. It did OK, but it didn’t go anywhere. And then I spent a year and a half trying different things. Now I’ve been on my new company since May 2008. It’s
Outsourcing: Naresh Lakhanpal And Hiro Notaney Of Patni Computer Systems (Part 2)
By guest author Tony Scott Tony: Size is a phenomenon that is not only related to outsourcing companies. When I was at A.T. Kearney, we did a marketing survey on the perception of clients and potential clients around consulting services organizations. One of the key things we found is that because clients have a very
