Catching Up On Readings: New Technology For A Century-Old Pursuit

This week’s post on LivingSocial, part of the Deal Radar series, covers both the featured company and the trend of social commerce and group coupons, a market that some say could be in the billions of dollars. The core idea is not new – in the United States coupons gained wide use in the first

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Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 4)

SM: When you joined the company, what was it selling? DC: It was selling boxes that were ozone generating devices to places such as the Bronx Zoo, the Honolulu Aquarium, Western Digital’s cooling tower and other people. It was purely a box which was sold.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: And how is your network organized? Padmaja: We were very entrepreneurial in how we started. I don’t think there was much thinking at that time. We didn’t realize it would be so big, to be honest. So, we just started with a private, limited company which

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: If you could give one piece advice to angels about how to become more successful, what would your advice be? Padmaja: That’s a tall order. I must first say this with a bit of a rider. Angel investing in India is very young. It’s not as

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Padmaja: As another example, there is an entrepreneur who’s doing 46% net profit, and we give him honest feedback: Don’t share equity. You don’t need to. He needs working capital, so we told him we put you on to people who give debt. Maybe that’s a cheaper way

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World Cup Diary: New Trade Prospects

Great first day of knockout stage soccer. Both Uruguay vs. South Korea and the USA vs. Ghana have been fantastic games. For the United States, well, Donovan sums it up: “Soccer is a cruel game, sometimes!” It’s interesting to see the round of 16 lineup: six Latin American teams (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, and

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Cleantech In Food: Purfresh CEO Dave Cope (Part 3)

SM: What did you do after BizGenics? DC: I took four years off. I love to surf and fly fish, so I did a lot of both of those. We have a house in Montana, and I surfed all over the world. I also did some consulting.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do entrepreneurs have to have previous senior executive experience? Padmaja: No. They need to have two things. One is an understanding of the domain, and the other is a bit of a complementary skills within the team. You don’t want to be investing only in a

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