April 8 Roundtable Recording

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College Bootstrapping Buddies: Grasshopper Cofounders Siamak Taghaddos And David Hauser (Part 1)

Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser are both serial entreprenuers and co-founders of Grasshopper, which offers advanced phone capabilites to small businesses. Siamak oversees the strategic direction of Grasshopper and serves as the company’s brand visionary while David oversees the strategic direction and operations of Grasshopper and serves as the company’s technology visionary. They met as students

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Research Internships For 2010

A number of research interns have worked with me over the past few years, pursuing specific topics of interest to them and to me. The first was Vijay Nagarajan, whose excellent work on the wireless chip sector led him from being an engineer in Atheros to a product manager at Broadcom. Vijay’s work is now

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1M/1M: Entrepreneurs, What Do You Need?

Over the last five years, I have interacted with literally thousands of early-stage entrepreneurs, and I think I have a decent idea about the requirements for 1M/1M. But this morning’s post by entrepreneur Nari Kannan titled What Do I Need From An Incubator gave me an idea. Why don’t you, my readers, help me validate

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What Do I Need From An Incubator?

By guest author Nari Kannan As an entrepreneur, what do I need from an incubator? Of late, there has been a lot of discussion in this forum about incubators, what measures they use for their own success, their business models, and so forth. In this post I discuss five things that I, as an entrepreneur, need

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Deal Radar 2010: Avisena

Avisena provides revenue cycle management (RCM) technology and services to medical practices à la athenahealth. The Avisena business model combines proprietary practice management technology delivered through the Web with a back-office service organization staffed with a team who manage collections and help physicians to better understand and improve their revenue cycles.

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 7)

SM: How do you conduct sales? SW: We primarily sell via telesales. SM: Are you able to sell to the enterprise accounts that way as well? SW: We do go visit them frequently. That is not a huge deal for us because we are organized by region.