The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Fantage

Fantage (short for “Fantastic Age”) is a virtual world created specifically for young computer users from about age 6 to age 14 but is accessible to everyone. Developed as a flash game, this virtual playground requires no download. The site offers “towns” to explore through a user’s avatar, games to play, and ways to chat

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 6)

SM: So your father was not necessarily supportive of your photography endeavor? TM: It’s more like he did not necessarily understand my choices. I left the family business when all three brothers stayed in it in one form or another.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: That’s how it went from there, and it developed. I worked part time for my brother for a couple of years, and then I ended up moving out to western Massachusetts to work full time for him. We were doing consulting work for entrepreneurs. We learned

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the sixth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. Corey Silva dropped into the angel universe by chance after being a serious rock n’ roll musician in his early days; he has written over 120 original songs. As fate would have it,

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 16)

By guest author Tony Scott Looking to the Future Tony: If you think about five years from now and say: “My vision of the work we will be doing and of my company five years from now is going to look like this,” what do you think you are going to look like? Anand: We

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Trademarkia Mountain View, California

Trademarkia is a startup search engine providing the largest free global search engine for registered trademarks on the Internet. The company has licensed the trademark database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and provide all of that office’s data, updated daily, in a graphical context. It has also licensed historical trademark data

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 5)

SM: Have you done demographic analysis to determine your gallery locations? TM: I have tried. I opened galleries in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Dallas, Texas, both with partners. The Steamboat Springs gallery is still doing well while the one in Dallas closed. It was not as simple as just looking at demographics.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You do track your returns internally, right? And it’s about 20%? Randy: That study was done to the end of 2007. We founded it in September 2000, so it was a seven-year study. The next study is being done right now, and that study will be

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