1M/1M: Does It Need A Bank?

As I have been facilitating the discussion on incubator business models and thinking through our experience so far with 1M/1M and the roundtables, one nugget that has come through for me is that 1M/1M needs a bank of sorts attached to it … some combination of a Grameen Bank (micro finance) and American Express Bank

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Is Outsourcing Dying Or Thriving? (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott The Double-Edged Sword: The Flat World A few years ago Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat” became a global best seller. One of that book’s key areas of focus was examining the immense change that lower-cost, effective global communications was causing by enabling back-office call centers and IT support work

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Catching Up On Readings: Palm’s Missed Opportunity

This week’s Forbes column and Monday’s Tech Stocks post discuss why, despite new models, Palm is not doing as well as it should. You can read all of this week’s posts by clicking on the full article.

Running Online Middle And High Schools: Caprice Young, CEO of KC Distance Learning (Part 4)

SM: Who accredited your school and what was that process? CY: The Middle States Accreditation Body visited our school and we went through a very complex rubric of their criteria. At that time we gained preliminary accreditation.

March 18 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed last week’s session, here is the recording:

Running Online Middle And High Schools: Caprice Young, CEO of KC Distance Learning (Part 3)

SM: Do you provide the teachers and the curriculum? CY: We do provide both; however, the curriculum is our primary focus. Our curriculum consists of online courses that students log into. Each course has a series of units. Each unit requires reading, which can include e-books or articles, as well as projects that students do

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Forbes Column 2010: Palm’s Missed Opportunity

The company has done a poor job of differentiating its go-to-market strategy. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, Palm’s Missed Opportunity.

Running Online Middle And High Schools: Caprice Young, CEO of KC Distance Learning (Part 2)

SM: When you worked for IBM, what were you doing there? CY: I was working in the e-business sector. I was leading the teams that were doing business engineering at the same time the technology fixes were going on. When a company would Web-enable a legacy system, my teams would be working with the business

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