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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday

Posted on Tuesday, May 4th 2010

Sramana Mitra’s next free online 1M/1M strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, May 6, 2010, starting at 8am PDT/11am EDT/8:30pm IST.  You can find more details and register here.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know!

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Deal Radar 2010: Rural America OnShore Sourcing ,Ohio,Kentucky

Posted on Tuesday, May 4th 2010

Rural America OnShore Sourcing, Inc. (Rural America) is a U.S.-based onshoring company. Through its offices in Ohio, Kentucky, and Wisconsin, it provides the same outsourcing services performed by offshoring companies, except it uses professionals based in rural parts of America instead of overseas, hiring these professionals for 25% to 40% less than the cost of

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Building One Of The World’s Biggest Tech Blogs From New Zealand: ReadWriteWeb Founder Richard MacManus (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, May 3rd 2010

SM: Are you hoping to sell the company in the end? RM: We are hoping to. That would be the goal. Either that or grow it into a much more profitable business, but I think acquisition is probably the likely scenario at some point.

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Sabeer Bhatia

Posted on Monday, May 3rd 2010

Sabeer Bhatia is the co-founder of Hotmail, and here is his review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020: “Sramana’s book could only have been written by someone who is both an entrepreneur and a good writer. Her stories, ideas and strategies for navigating the complex world of startups and venture capital are so realistic. I really think someone

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Deal Radar 2010: Just Moulding , Maryland

Posted on Monday, May 3rd 2010

Just Moulding is an interior design firm that is using a franchise model with strong online and software components to change a business “usually handled by skilled carpenters in an unskilled manner.”

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Will Amazon Or Apple Buy Netflix?

Posted on Monday, May 3rd 2010

According to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, online spending grew 18% over the year in March, outpacing the growth rate of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Online retailers Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) also saw significant growth in their revenues. Amazon’s stock touched a record high, and recent quarter results surpassed market expectations, recording double-digit revenue and earnings growth. But the company

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Building One Of The World’s Biggest Tech Blogs From New Zealand: ReadWriteWeb Founder Richard MacManus (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, May 2nd 2010

SM: What happened to cause that growth? RM: The business structure is stronger now. In the past six months I have put a lot more work into making sure the business structure is solid.

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Catching Up On Readings: Optimism Is Contagious

Posted on Sunday, May 2nd 2010

Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at UC Berkeley Naeem Zafar calls Vision India 2020 “unlike any book I have ever read” and puts forth that the book’s optimism is contagious in his new review. You can read all of this week’s posts by clicking on the full article.

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