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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 7)
SM: Last question, when you look around, what are some of the interesting entrepreneurial opportunities that are opening up because of the wide adoption of platform-as-a-service as it unfolds? PR: If you’re an entrepreneur today, your startup cost is incrementally low. If you have a good idea, to execute on an idea, you can leverage
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 5)
SM: Yes. Your point is well taken that there are definitely some gaps in Google’s offering in Google Apps, but there is also a substantial amount of business going to Google, from what I gather, because of the incredible cost structure that they have created. PR: It’s free, yes, it is free … for the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 4)
SM: From what I’m seeing, the CRM and related systems, for instance, is one of the areas where an enterprise buys largely public cloud solutions. Of course, there are other big silos which people are procuring largely from public cloud solutions, talent management and various other management areas, and then there’s a long-tail application development
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 3)
SM: Yes and no. How much of this what we call bootstrapping, using platform-as-a-service, a SaaS platform, I guess, do you see happening in small startups? PR: We’re seeing a lot of them. What’s happening is the new companies that are coming right now, the companies that are starting up are starting with such low
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 2)
SM: Let’s double click down on each of the areas that you discussed. How much are you familiar with what’s happening in the world of small software companies – software companies, in general – using software-as-a-service to get out into the market with new solutions? One of the case studies that I have looked at
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 7)
Sraman Mitra: The point I’m trying to make is that there is a filter, and you’re making these bets with a lens in mind. Your end goal is to use these companies to get into larger companies that will acquire them. What I’m talking about is a scale of one million entrepreneurs reaching $1 million in
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 6)
SM: That’s exactly my point. You can, if you go into a niche that is an up and coming niche that is potentially underserved and you develop core competency – the real operating words are core competency. SD: Yes. Their story, their focus was very UI and design focused. Immediately before this, like I said,
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You can set up a 1,000-person operation in a certain region, especially if you run your own university. I don’t think that should be a problem. San Dhawan: Right. SM: There are two other topics I want to explore. One is, how do you go from a $200 million to a $1 billion company,
