I am partnering with Bodhtree Consulting, a boutique consulting form from Hyderabad, India to build a SaaS and Cloud Computing center of excellence. Here is a recent press release announcing this partnership.
CNBC
Reuters
Sys-Con
Financial Express
CIOL
Silicon India
EFY Times
India PRwire
Neeta is starting her flight lessons; welcome to the world of being a student pilot….
She has about 8 hours now, and today she did a phenomenal take-off from Hawthorne. She is within private pilot limits on slow flight, power-on stalls and power-off stalls (dirty configuration). Today, she was also doing both the stalls with a shallow 20 degree bank. Not bad!!!
Her rudder control is not perfect.. but oh well ! She is just in her first week of training. What do u expect!
See this interesting blog posting about the value of a Consulting CTO. Consulting CTO’s can help you out on a short term basis; generally for small amounts of equity.
Depending on the type and amount of work; you will end up giving 25,000-100,000 stock options (where you have 10 million outstanding @ .01 – .10 cents). These will generally vest based on the terms of engagement and deliverables you require from the freelance / consulting CTO.
My recommendation; as someone who actively plays this role for multiple startups is to be very clear up front on the scope of involvement, deliverables and compensation. Startups are by nature fluid. The core team and all need others involved to be flexible; but putting some structure around this at the beginning can lead to a successful relationship long term.
My first iPhone application finally went live. Bodhtree Consulting and Bob Alonzi were my partners in crime.
See the application on ITunes at
itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315331924&mt=8&s=143441
iPhone Stretching Application
I recently spoke at the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego, California.
Burton Catalyst Conference 2009
The topic of my talk, titled “Using Identity Virtualization to Mitigate Risk at Sony Pictures Entertainment”, covered a recent project I did at Sony Pictures, to implement the Radiant Logic Virtual Directory. Simeio Solutions provided consulting services for my project.
Mark Dixon covers this conference in his blog. Read what he writes about all the conference sessions; as well as my session.
http://blogs.sun.com/identity/entry/catalyst_conference_day_2_thursday
