The New JOBS Act and Crowdfunding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

March 13, 2012 | By Sarah

If you own a private company, chances are you have considered going public or plan on doing so after you have accrued enough resources. And if this is your vision for your small or medium-sized business, a new legislative act put in place last week may be the impetus needed to turn that vision into reality.

Known as the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS Act, this bipartisan legislative package aims at helping the growth of startups and small or medium-sized businesses, ultimately creating more jobs and boosting the overall economy. The bill consists of measures that reduce SEC restrictions on small and medium-sized companies and create new investment opportunities.

Specifically, the JOBS Act:

Eases certain rules and restrictions the SEC imposes on small companies, allowing them to go public with less resources and in less time.

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Zoho on Lifetime Television’s The Balancing Act

January 18, 2012 | By Rodrigo Vaca

We were recently invited to The Balancing Act, a morning talk show on Lifetime Television, to discuss how online software helps people run their small businesses. Sometimes those of us in the SaaS industry forget how new and daunting running applications on the cloud can appear to those that are new to it. But of course, it isn’t. Zoho makes it easy for freelancers and small businesses to focus on their business while we take care of the rest.

Rodrigo…

‘The Economic Times’ profiles Zoho University

December 11, 2010 | By Arvind

Pankaj Mishra in ‘The Economic Times’ wrote about Zoho University, our in-house initiative that recruits students who’ve finished higher secondary school students and trains them to become software engineers. From

the article

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In an industry scrambling to hire and retain restless engineers from top engineering and business schools, Zoho offers lessons to other entrepreneurs in terms of looking beyond traditional hiring, apart from demonstrating that India can produce software product for users across the globe.

… for employees like [Saran] Babu, an open work atmosphere without any investor or stock market pressure means freedom to think bold and execute the ideas.

“Zoho taught us how to learn on our own,” he says.

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Raju Vegesna in conversation with Suzanne Bowen

November 26, 2010 | By Arvind

Raju did this podcast for the Cloud Computing Summit, which happened in Hyderabad, India on Nov 26, 2010. Raju discusses many things like cloud computing, SAAS, how SMBs can benefit from SAAS, India’s ongoing transformation from being IT service-oriented to having a lot many product start-ups etc.

The podcast is here.…

US Midterm Elections – Zoho in Action

November 16, 2010 | By Arvind

Here’s something interesting we wanted to share – the little role
that Zoho played in the recently concluded US midterm elections.

Dan Centinello, a Campaign Manager, chose Zoho for live
analysis & reporting of data on the election day. He stored
over 4 million records (rows) of voters’ information in a Zoho Reports
table. And for editing of these records, a Zoho Creator app’s form
interface was used. The Zoho Creator app also had a mobile interface
form for entering data. The records were looked up (read) and edited
upon by around a hundred people simultaneously. The whole Zoho set up
served as the backbone for viewing in real time, the stats of all voters as they voted.

Says Dan,

The worrisome part about implementing such an unprecedented and
aggressive operation is that many things can go wrong unexpectedly. We
planned for the worst and made changes if something went wrong with the
other 11 elements of our operation; however, one facet that we knew we
had no room for error was on the technological side.

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Getting Out of The “Inevitable Monopoly” Mindset

October 20, 2010 | By Sridhar

Microsoft announced their business cloud offering Office365 yesterday. In keeping with Microsoft’s installed software offerings, it has 3 components: Microsoft Office, Exchange and Sharepoint. The natural question is how does it impact Zoho? What do we think of this at Zoho?

I believe Microsoft’s offering will be successful. Microsoft is a formidable competitor, and when they focus, they tend to get things right. They have been lukewarm about the cloud in the past, but that strategic ambiguity is firmly in the past – with Office365, they are making that loud and clear.

From our perspective, Microsoft getting serious about the cloud brings both opportunities and challenges. I will first outline the short to medium term effects.

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Zoho Reports Integration Case Study: Impact Solutions

October 13, 2010 | By Arvind

Yesterday, Aparna

narrated how a WW II Veterans site is using Zoho Creator. Today, let’s see how
an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the educational sector has
integrated Zoho Reports and reaping huge benefits. The ISV that’s
integrated Zoho Reports is

Impact Solutions and the man behind the app is Jesse Olsen.

The Challenge

Jesse
Olsen realized that educators at his public high school in New York
City and at other schools spend far too much time tracking and
analyzing metrics such as student attendance, behavior, grades, and test
scores. Preoccupied by this recordkeeping and review, teachers had
less time to spend planning meaningful learning experiences and working
directly with their students.…

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