Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! Assembling your own books – how are you doing that? What is the workflow for a teacher to assembling his or her own book? PW: This for us is very new. What we do is have a consultant come in and work with teachers to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I see. That actually gives me a good segway into one of the most important discussions in your industry today, or at least the way the greater technology world hears about your industry, which is the movement of textbooks to e-books and the rise of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is your perspective on what Google is doing with Google Docs and Google Apps? PW: Well, for a lot of these kinds of applications is the same thing with the similar applications for the iPad. Our problem, or I guess our challenge, is compatibility. It

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Well, sounds like it makes perfect financial sense that a private cloud is going to be more cost effective than an environment where there is a lot of duplication, no virtualization, and all of that. I know the financial answer to this question, but the question

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 1)

The advent of iPads, Kindles and e-books coupled with cost effective, efficient, and scalable cloud computing technology is creating a big churn in the traditional publishing industry. Environmental concerns on electronic publishing aside, cloud computing seems to benefit the newer trends in publishing world such as ‘self publishing’ that does entail a fair amount of additional effort from the authors as opposed to traditional publishing, but helps in terms of scale, costs and time to publish.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: I think that the most difficult thing to find is exceptional entrepreneurs and exceptional teams. Once you find them, everything else, as far as I’m concerned, is a commodity. Technology is a commodity, ideas are a commodity. Execution is the only thing that matters, and smart

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: I think the interesting thing about the world today is that if you put a small amount of money to work, companies with even small amount of returns – you know, with the $20 million to $50 million to $70 million exits – can still be

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your average investment size? Saad: I think it’s between $250,000 and $500,000. Irina: Do you do follow-on investments? Saad: We have. We have some companies that don’t actually need any more money, as well. Irina: How long does it take for entrepreneurs to receive

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