September 15: FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 15, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. Please tell your friends, all are welcome!

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September 8 Roundtable Poll Winner

Noam Band’s Timest was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a question about that. You gave the example of Adobe or Autodesk, right? These are media or CAD tool vendors, and typically CAD files or video files that are being edited are extremely heavy files. So, people tend to not edit these files in the cloud; they tend to edit them in their

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Concur And NetSuite Continue To Expand

Concur (NASDAQ:CNQR), a leading SaaS expense management vendor, after its TripIt acquisition earlier in the year, continued expanding with its recent acquisition of GlobalExpense for about £14 million (US$22.2 million). NetSuite (NYSE:N), a SaaS ERP vendor, on the other hand, expanded its services to the enterprise class and landed leading companies like Groupon and Qualcomm

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 2)

Sramana: I am a huge fan of the thought leadership and processes that Salesforce.com has brought to our industry, as well as the evangelizing of a completely new paradigm. What are some of your key reasons for success? Jim Burleigh: There were a few different things that came together at one point that made salesforce.com

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Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 1)

When I first wrote the piece Silicon Valley: The Next Decade, I did not think that an opportunity to implement the ideas expressed in it would come so soon. Even as I wrote the follow-on piece, The Next European Renaissance, I had not yet started the subsequent discussions with the Menlo Park City Council. However,

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Roundtable Recap: September 8 – A View Into Israeli Start-ups

At today’s roundtable, we had a jam-packed pitch session with five Israeli start-ups. Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. Both the audience and the presenters had a significant representation from that extraordinary start-up nation. In fact, Saul Singer, author of Start-up Nation had

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September 8 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording: