Outsourcing: Jason Beans, Founder and CEO of Rising Medical Solutions (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When you look around in the healthcare IT space, what do you see in the landscape that is competitive to you, that you’re going to have to be aware of and counter? Jason Beans: I see that it is very competitive. A lot of people trying to solve the same problems as I am.

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Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 4)

SM: You’re located in Bangalore? SD: The main sites are Bangalore and Pune, but we do have satellite offices in Mumbai and Delhi, Gurgaon. SM: Is there any thought in the company to look at other cities, more heartland cities, lower cost destinations? SD: Within India, do you mean?

India’s Big Opportunity In SaaS

It was clear to me way back in the nineties that India’s journey forward as a center of excellence in software would not gain legitimacy without some home grown product companies. Amidst the outsourcing boom, however, it was impossible to gain traction for the idea. Since March 2007, I have often orchestrated discussions on my

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: SurgeForth

By guest author Praveen Kumar The next generation talent management suite TalentWeaver, created by SurgeForth helps companies to assess, acquire, develop, and align their workforces for improved business performance. TalentWeaver integrates competency management, competency-based learning management, a career development workbench, and predictive analytics offered to enterprises and academia on a subscription model. The solution is

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Forbes Column 08: Bootstrap Yourself

My new Forbes column Bootstrap Yourself highlights Silicon Valley’s hottest new trend, Bootstrapping. Great bootstrapping case studies I have covered are Sridhar Vembu, Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls, Cree Lawson, and Beatrice Tarka. Sridhar, Frank and Jerry did it almost without any outside money, while Cree and Beatrice have done it with very small rounds

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Sridhar Vembu: Silicon Valley’s Unknown Indian

The story of Sridhar Vembu’s innovative bootstrapping. A story all entrepreneurs should understand.

Bootstrapping is One Answer

The VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance post has generated great discussion. In it, a theme that emerges over and again, is Bootstrapping. You have read a few of my prior writings on Bootstrapping [Is Bootstrapping Becoming Sexy and Again? and Protect Your Dilution]. There is no doubt at all anymore that bootstrapping is, indeed, becoming sexy again.

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Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 7)

Sridhar’s thesis around Zoho is to ride on top of the market awareness already created by Salesforce.com, Webex and others around On-Demand / SaaS delivery models for business applications like the Office Suite, CRM, Web Conferencing, Project Management, etc. and simply do a dramatic undercutting based on price. He insists that the amount of Sales

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