Rolling Up E-mail Security SaaS: Gary Steele, CEO Of Proofpoint (Part 1)

Gary Steele is the CEO of Proofpoint, a company which is a leader in e-mail security, data loss prevention, and e-mail archiving solutions. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Gary served as the CEO of Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Prior to Portera, Gary was the vice president and general manager

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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you think business owners should do, in general, to be more successful with finding the capital that they need? Mitch: I think the absolute, most pivotal thing that business owners need to do is to make it easier for lenders to understand the performance

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: SitStay ,Lincoln,Nebraska

SitStay, Inc. started as an online mom-and-pop dog supply store that has become one of the largest dog supply retailers on the Internet, defying conventional wisdom about the viability of selling pet products online. Readers may recall the failure of Petopia and the collapse of Amazon-backed Pets.com, which raised $82.5 million in an IPO in

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Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 7)

SM: What are some of the other shifts in strategy you have had in the company, other than the move from water to food? DC: Providing solutions throughout the supply chain was very significant. Another was to add an informatics layer to everything we have. The jury is still out on whether I have made

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World Cup Diary: Latin America Reigns

So, we now have the quarterfinal line up: four Latin American teams are in the next round. Brazil and Argentina were expected. Paraguay and Uruguay have also qualified. The only Latin American team that didn’t make it was Chile, but they were matched against Brazil, a tall order.

Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What business sectors do you usually see? Mitch: It’s all of the local services that you would see in any community or neighborhood. Restaurants, retail, local practitioners such as doctors, dentists, veterinarians, hospitality, hotel and lodging, plumbing, HVAC, repairpeople. Those are the major categories. Then there’s

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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: All your contacts with businesses seeking financing and all the processes are through the software, right? There are no people-to-people meetings like angel groups have? Mitch: No. Although, I think increasingly there are businesses where there’s both a technology layer and a business services layer. And

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Paltalk ,Los Angeles

Paltalk provides software and technology for real-time, rich media, interactive social networking. The Paltalk platform powers the largest collection of video-based communities on the Internet and has more than 4 million active members, with nearly 100,000 people at any one time chatting in rooms on a variety of topics, talking with friends, instant messaging, or

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