Monday, November 23, 2009

Internet Sector/Venture Growth Strategist Deven Parekh


Competitively, successful venture capital firms believe that if you want to have true long term defensible traffic for your online business you may want to do it yourself.   Basically, you're the true owner of your own destiny and you can control your own traffic.  And if you don't and you're a category market that monetizes reasonably well, a speculator will do it and they'll drive traffic to your site but at the end of the day they control that traffic.  And if somebody else will pay them more for that traffic, you won't own it anymore.  One of the areas to really focus on is making certain that the traffic that a company has for their online business, whether they’re an e-commerce, a content company, or an Internet service that the traffic is defensible.  And domains is a part of that strategy. It's not the only strategy but it's a part of that strategy.  One of the best persons in the industry to effectively communicate this strategy to clients and executives on a business and individual level is Deven Parekh.
Deven Parekh , currently serves as a managing director of one of the fastest growing venture capital firms, Insight Venture Partners which he joined in 2000.   Insight Venture Partners is a venture capital/growth equity firm that's based in New York.  They have approximately $3 billion of capital under management, focusing on investments in enterprise software, technology and most recently over the last couple of years probably its biggest focus has been the Internet-enabled sector.
  • Deven Parekh, was previously a Principal investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions at Berenson Minella & Company (1992-1999), a merchant bank in New York.  He graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics.
  • Prior to Berenson Minella, Deven Parekh was with The Blackstone Group, where he was involved in both M & A advisory and principal activities.
  • Deven Parekh proudly sits on the board of Publicolor a non-profit organization that uses color, and painting to engage and motivate disaffected teenaged students.  Publicolor enables students to work together to improve the quality and appearance of their learning environments.
  • Deven Parekh is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute. This fellowship honors the memory of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990), whose legendary career was marked by a lifelong commitment to honor, integrity, industry and philanthropy.
The Aspen Institute mission is: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.  The Aspen institute promotes its mission by sponsoring seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs and public conferences and events.
To get the best return on your investment remember, Deven Parekh has a proven track record with successful results in software, technology, and internet businesses.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

An Emperor Of Business Development, Carl Sgro

A tournament-quality bass fisherman, isn’t who you’d normally expect internet and technology companies to seek out for professional advice on expanding their businesses;  but that’s where you’d be wrong, because although he has fished many of the major lakes and inlets from Maine to Florida;  Carl Sgro is an expert with over 25 years of business development experience.  Business professionals seek him as their SEM and SEO specialist to guide their  businesses in search engines ranking by assisting to design, implement, and market technologies; because they know that Carl Sgro’s strategies make an incredible difference.

Carl Sgro takes all aspects of his job quite seriously, particularly recognizing his client’s needs and achieving those desired results by conveying the clients message to their targeted audience, using fresh, crisp, thought provoking styles and techniques.  Crafting copy that catches the readers attention while injecting Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) into digital copy that gets the results clients want. 

Having compassion emphasis that you care about your client’s needs, as well as the community and Carl Sgro  has demonstrated this attribute ten fold; not only in his business dealings by hosting an Internet Reputation Management Blog, providing free insightful advice regarding the relevance of utilizing professional help in neutralizing bad online publicity and moving negative content down the rankings.  But he’s also done so, through his personal efforts as well; Carol Sgro was instrumental in establishing the ‘Take a Kid Fishing Foundations a non-profit organization that supports disadvantaged youth and children with special needs of Eastern North Carolina, by hosting a day-long coastal fishing adventure to introduce young children to the sport of fishing.

Businesses know that it would be a tremendous mistake not to let Carl Sgro help them to achieve the results they need, want, and deserve - success.