1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Next Thursday

Sramana Mitra’s next free online 1M/1M strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs will be held next Thursday, May 20, 2010, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  You can find more details and register here. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know!

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Online K-12 Education IPO In The Great Recession: Archipelago Learning Co-founders Cameron Chalmers, Dave Muzzo, And CEO Tim McEwen (Part 2)

SM: What happened during the year and a half you were building the product? I assume you were able to put it online. What kind of customers were coming to you? DM: We got a few people to register for a free service, and those users input their study material. We quickly realized over the

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How To Build A Million Dollar Business

In case you missed it, Donna Fenn with BNET interviewed Sramana Mitra for her article, How to Build a Million Dollar Business.  You can find the article here.

Online K-12 Education IPO In The Great Recession: Archipelago Learning Co-founders Cameron Chalmers, Dave Muzzo, And CEO Tim McEwen (Part 1)

David Muzzo and Cameron Chalmers cofounded Study Island in May 2000 and have been vice president and director, respectively, since January 2007. Both received a BS from Vanderbilt University. Prior to founding Study Island, Cameron served as a software engineering lead developer for Lucent Technologies, and David founded Captive Marketing Concepts, which he sold in

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Deal Radar 2010: American Retroworks Inc.

Suppose you could recycle your TV for the price of a few cups of coffee, and know that it was done safely? This is the mission of American Retroworks Inc., an international recycling company for used electronics equipment – TVs, computers, printers, cathode ray tubes, mercury fluorescent lamps, and so forth – from business and

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Taking On Microsoft And Google From India: InstaColl Founders Sumanth Raghavendra, Kaushal Cavale, And Their Mentor Sabeer Bhatia (Part 7)

SM: VCs don’t offer what you are offering Sumanth and Kaushal. Having a bridge like the one you are providing is very helpful. SB: VCs dump companies and run away. I am now buying companies that VCs have dumped.

Vision India 2020 Book Review: Should Stir The Creative Juices Of Entrepreneurs

Here is a review by Holden Lee for Amazon: “Vision India 2020 is a richly painted collection of interwoven stories that are part business case study, part futurist fiction, and ultimately scenarios that should stir the creative juices of entrepreneurs, policy makers, and India-watchers alike. While presented as a series of vignettes drawing upon trends

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Empathica, Georgia, Ontario

Over the next few weeks Deal Radar will feature companies that have been successful in creating and using Facebook applications as part of of their business model. Empathica is a company that has used Facebook in its efforts to automate the measurement and management of customer loyalty and thereby prevent customer defection. The company’s mission

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