Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 1)

The Guardian has called Robert McKee the “most influential storytelling theorist since Aristotle.” As a screenwriting instructor, he has taught students as illustrious as John Lasseter of Pixar and Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “A Beautiful Mind”, “The Da Vinci Code” and other films. For over 15 years, his Story Seminar has been the

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Next Strategy Roundtable on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009

Through this free, online Positioning Roundtable, Sramana Mitra aims to help early-stage entrepreneurs further develop their business ideas. Entrepreneurs can participate from anywhere by computer or phone and there will be a live, interactive chat throughout the webinar. You can find more details and register here.  We hope you will join us on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009 at 10 a.m. PT/1

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Deal Radar 2009: Reply!com

As more small and medium-sized businesses adopt online marketing techniques for local advertising, it’s no surprise that there are an ever-increasing number of companies focusing on local advertising and Web analytics that are eager to offer their services. Over the past few months, Deal Radar has featured notable players in this space. Today’s company, Reply!com,

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Teaching 50,000 Students Online: APEI CEO Wally Boston (Part 7)

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Teaching 50,000 Students Online: APEI CEO Wally Boston (Part 6)

SM: Can you talk about the financials? When you came on board in 2002, what was the revenue level and what was your financial strategy to move the company ahead? WB: In 2002 I believe we finished the year at $10 million in revenues. We raised $10 million through our private equity firm. In 2005

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Deal Radar 2009: SMS GupShup

SMS GupShup is a social messaging platform launched in 2004, at a time when SMS was only used for person-to-person (P2P) messaging and content players were selling ringtones and wallpapers to mobile subscribers.

Teaching 50,000 Students Online: APEI CEO Wally Boston (Part 5)

SM: It seems as though your learning outcomes are similar to a corporate vision. WB: We have five institutional learning outcomes: Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy, Communication, Academic Skill, and Critical Thinking. They were developed by our faculty as the key learning outcomes.

Catching Up On Readings: Tetris Redux

This week Sramana talks with Henk Rogers, the creator of Tetris. Click on the full article for this and all of the week’s posts.