Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fortieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Anurag (Anu) Nigam, president of Sand Hill Angels, which is an angel investing group in Silicon Valley with more than 60 members. Anu is also the founder and CEO of BuzzBox,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In addition to e-mail, what other workloads at Westmont College have you moved to the cloud? RS: We followed that with other projects based on community input here at Westmont. Another thing we really wanted to get right was wireless. When I arrived, the existing wireless

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Outsourcing: Naresh Lakhanpal And Hiro Notaney Of Patni Computer Systems (Part 1)

By guest author Tony Scott The outsourcing series makes its return with this ninth interview, in which I am talking with Naresh Lakhanpal, executive VP and president, Americas, and Hiro Notaney, VP of marketing, of Patni Computer Systems. Patni offers IT services, product engineering services, customer interaction services (CIS), business process outsourcing (BPO), and infrastructure management

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Christina Brodbeck, Silicon Valley (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you serve on the boards of any of the companies you invested in? Christina: No, I don’t. I do serve on some advisory boards, but those aren’t the companies that I have invested in. Irina: What do you think entrepreneurs could do better? Christina: Going

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Christina Brodbeck, Silicon Valley (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you look for in the people? I see you’re very young yourself.  What kind of experience do you look for in the people? Christina: For two of the companies I’ve invested in, the founders have been very young. I think both of them were

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Christina Brodbeck, Silicon Valley (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When you see a promising pitch, what is your next step? Christina: It’s two ways. If I just read about something that I like, or hear from somebody, I’ll usually reach out to [the entrepreneur], and say, “Hey, I’m really interested. Let’s sit down and grab

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You were talking about public debate about angels versus VCs, throughout the blogosphere and how in some instances it has gotten pretty colorful. Mike: Yes, it doesn’t make sense to be antagonizing an entire category of investors that you’re going to need to be partnering with.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Christina Brodbeck, Silicon Valley (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-eighth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Christina Brodbeck, a Silicon Valley angel investor and the co-founder of a soon-to-be-launched startup called TheIceBreak. Christina was part of the YouTube founding team. She designed YouTube’s first user interface and

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