1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Tissuepro, Miami, FL

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Tissuepro is a fledgling business founded by Miami-based Lenny Marcovitz, who has created a rapid tissue processing machine that he will sell along with the chemicals needed to run it. >>>

Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 5)

SM: So these companies had different pagers for each IT system?

TM: Yes. It was even more problematic as firms globalized their IT infrastructure. None of the IT management companies focused on the person involved in IT; they focused only on the component monitoring. >>>

Roundtable Recap: September 2 – Find High Velocity Channels

First up at this week’s roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets, an online destination and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. But for Cheryl, the problem is that she needs critical mass. I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites.
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Outsourcing: Jean Cholka, President and CEO Of Freeborders (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott

Labor Arbitrage or Value-Added Services?

Tony: Let’s talk about labor arbitrage and the drive to outsource, because that’s one of the big questions around outsourcing in general. Many people have the perception that outsourcing is about only labor arbitrage. What percentage of your business do you think is labor-rate arbitrage versus value-added services, services that customers are buying because of your domain expertise? >>>

September 2 Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik

SM: What are your thoughts about data residing in different places? Is there a barrier to adoption? Let’s say you put your data in China or somewhere that is questionable from the buyer’s point of view. Is this an issue that’s coming up? >>>

Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 4)

SM: People who have made career moves like yours, which are risky, can do wonders for their careers. Nobody at that time was going to hire you to be CEO of Microsoft. Instead, you can take a bad project and turn it around. In the end it becomes a great move.

TM: There are a lot of things I would do differently. I learned that if you are going to work with VCs then you need to be realistic regarding what their business is. They must deliver a return to their investors. Be real about it and don’t get your feelings hurt if they treat you like an investment and not like a friend. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik

SM: Yes, and in a public cloud, the platform and infrastructure are evolving. Amazon’s AWS and Salesforce.com’s Force.com are also going in that direction and making it possible for small and medium companies to buy cloud solutions in a black-box mode. >>>