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Day: August 20, 2006

Interview with Dave Stephens – CEO of Coupa by Alex Fletcher

Recently Alex Fletcher interviewed Dave Stephens, CEO of Coupa. Here is the full interview – Director’s cut! Some weeks back I ran across an interesting open source company while I was surfing through various IT related blogs. I’ll typically stumble across or hear about at least one or two new open source efforts per week just during the course of reading, surfing/browsing, talking to others involved with the IT industry. However, when I happened upon Coupa, for the first time in a while I couldn’t name one other open source participant in their market (eProcurement). With my curiosity piqued, I…

The AngelInve$tor – The Magazine for the alternative investor

Last week, I received a complementary copy of The AngelInve$tor – The Magazine for the alternative investor, published by Corporate Publishing Ltd from Brian Perry, Business Development Director. Brian is a serial entrepreneur turned angel investor and President of Corporate Acquisitions Inc. The Magazine is priced at £10 and the August 06 issue is full of articles that I considered as light reading (i.e. can be read from start to finish in a day easily). I was intrigued by the advertisements it carried – from Maybach (luxury car from Mercedes) to Edminston (luxury yachts), clearly indicating it is intended to…