1M/1M: Rural America’s Outsourcing Potential

I was at the University of Oregon (Eugene) graduation ceremony on Monday. The university has over 22,000 students. Oregon is a relatively poor state with low cost of living, unemployment hovering between 10%–12%, and a population of only about 4 million. In May, I was in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, all rural states with low

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Deal Radar 2010: Nautilus Environmental

Nautilus Environmental is an environmental consulting and testing firm that specializes in toxicology, biology, and ecology and integrating its understanding of those areas with chemistry and hydrology to answer questions with a science-based approach. Says founder Marilyn O’Neill, “We are very much applied scientists and work predominantly where land touches water – streams, oceans, estuaries,

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 7)

SM: Essentially you are saying the market has now experienced an explosion of images, not all of which convey a unique essence? TM: Yes. A lot of photographers who are above average are giving away their images in order to get a credit line. One of the difficult things with wildlife photography is the proliferation

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: And from all the quality deals, on a weekly basis, we sit down and go all right, this deal’s from this space, who knows that?, and this deal is from this area, who would be good for that? And we target the members whom we think

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you swap deals with other angel groups? By e-mail? Corey: That was how it was done years ago, and it’s still done that way, sometimes but there’s a Web platform called AngelSoft, and that makes it really easy. There are features right inside AngelSoft,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry focus? Corey: I know a lot of angel groups are focused, if not on one industry, then maybe on just two or three, because their membership pool is really drawn from those space. In Boston, that’s often the case. The

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: ThinkChange India

Vinay Ganti with ThinkChange India recently spoke with Sramana Mitra about her book Vision India 2020. You can find the “Sramana Mitra wants to help you transform India into an innovation hotbed” interview here. In a separate review of the book he says: “Very few books attempt to ‘show not tell’ what an ecosystem of innovation

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, June 17

The next free online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, June 17, 2010, starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  TiE New Delhi is co-hosting this roundtable, so their members will be presenting their businesses. All are welcome to attend.  You can find more details and register here.