How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 1)

Christian Chabot is CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. Prior to Tableau he was an associate partner at Softbank Venture Capital, where he specialized in enterprise applications. Before Softbank, Christian was CEO and co-founder of BeeLine Software, which was acquired by Vicinity Corporation. Christian started his career as a data analyst at Cornerstone Research, an

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Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Tomorrow

Sramana Mitra’s next free online strategy roundtable for entreprenurs will be held tomorrow, March 4, 2010, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST.  You can find more details and register here. We hope you’ll join us and share with other entrepreneurs who may be interested.

Deal Radar 2010: WinBuyer

WinBuyer develops solutions for online retailers to maximize retailer page revenue (RPM) and turn traffic into sales by improving the consumer experience and making online customers feel confident about their purchases. WinBuyer’s initial monetization product, an onsite comparative pricing (OCP) application that shows the various prices a product is selling for, is embedded in a

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Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 7)

SM: After you brought in the experts and they identified the needs in American education, what did you do about it? JK: As a result of what we learned, we created a virtual field experience. The experience is now delivered as an entire course on classroom management for new teachers.

Entrepreneurship Education: Why Do Business Incubators Fail?

While my previous post on entrepreneurship education, Bootstrapping at B-Schools is still generating hot discussion, I would like to pose another important discussion topic: Why do business incubators fail? Those among my readers who have perspective and analysis to offer on the subject, please feel free to jump right in. [Please note that since this

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Deal Radar 2010: Fieldglass

Deal Radar continues its coverage of the changing labor landscape with Fieldglass, which provides a SaaS platform, InSite, that helps global 2000 corporations acquire and manage contingent or contract workers, outsourced services, and direct hires so that firms can better understand and use their workforces.

Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 6)

SM: I am observing that you have a segment out there, which is teachers who are teaching middle school and high school math and science without significant math and science backgrounds. If you take that segment of teachers and teach them how to teach with technology, then you have a very interesting segment. That is

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Deal Radar 2010: RepeaterStore

RepeaterStore sells cellular signal boosters, products that will boost a cell phone signal in dead zones or on the fringe of coverage. This emerging technology is equally important to businesses and end users, and RepeaterStore is committed to selling and promoting it through a Web 3.0 approach.