1M/1M Profile: The TradeStreet

By guest author Punit Gupta Another Milestone: The TradeStreet Posts 10,000 Trades The TradeStreet, a social platform for traders, has been growing fast and attracting a lot of top-notch traders since its inception. Less than four weeks ago, the company released a press release announcing it had effected 5,000 trades. It is excited to report

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely! So, my follow-on question as I was listening to you as you talked about opening up your API is, What kinds of tools would you like to see third-party developers offer? Do entrepreneurs develop on your platform to provide value? If you were an entrepreneur and if you were to use TradeKing’s

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 5)

Dan Raju: So, as I was saying, You have an extremely big change in the way customers are consuming services and that change began with the influx of mobility technologies to the site, which has completely disrupted the space. The second thing has to do with customers themselves, and they are requesting an entirely different

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All right, so, let’s move to your second point. Dan Raju: Our second point of value is very simple, as it is for everyone else, and that point is infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service has been great for us as a company that was very small and has grown tremendously big

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Before we talk about budgeting capabilities and such, I think it would help readers to understand better if you gave a use case of a particular instance? Dan Raju: Absolutely! So, for example, most of us in technology do two things. We say, I am

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: You said you have 250,000 investors working on this platform? Dan Raju: Yes. SM: The reason I ask this question is that from a cloud technology problem point of view, the problem is serving these 250,000 customers, which is the scale of the customers you are serving, correct?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay Sramana Mitra: Hi, Dan. Welcome to our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series. Let’s begin by talking about what TradeKing does, and what your business is, and what is the scope of cloud deployment we are talking about for your company. Also, would you give us some

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Deal Radar 2009: SharesPost

It’s a problem that is not going to go away any time soon: How to make private equity liquid? SharesPost, a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of private equity and automates the sale of private company stock, is one company offering a solution. Currently operating in public beta, the company was founded by Greg

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