1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For E-Commerce Entrepreneurs On September 23

Especially for entrepreneurs interested in e-commerce, we will be co-hosting the next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable with Volusion on Thursday, September 23, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  We hope you will join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

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Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 5)

SM: What happened in 2004 when your competitor started out and you were running out of cash? TT: I wanted to quit a thousand times. I would wake up at 1 a.m. just worrying about the money and payroll. We cut people but still had a $50,000 payroll. I would call my friends from SunGard

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Geoff Ralston, Silicon Valley (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Geoff: Sometimes I’ll say to entrepreneurs, “You have a decent idea but your pitch sucks. You’ve got to learn how to take your idea and sell it. If you’re going to go through PowerPoints about X, Y, and Z, this isn’t why I invest. This isn’t how

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Roundtable Recap: September 16 – 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

At today’s roundtable, I started with a presentation on Blue Sky opportunities in Cloud Computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, and discussed why they are relevant, and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from. For you, readers, here

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Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Dave Fitzgerald, EVP Of Sales And Marketing, Brainshark (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada SM: Enterprise sales cycles tended to be pretty long, especially when there was a complex sale involved. What you are saying is today, you may have figured out a way to use these sales 2.0 techniques to shorten that sales cycle. Is that a fair statement?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma SM: Right, which is where startups play very well. Startups start with the lead users and begin developing the market, and once they gain momentum and have validated the space, you pick them up and deploy them to a broader population. DF: So, I think going

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hospitality Star

By guest author Praveen Kumar Hospitality Star offers end-to-end solutions based on a SaaS model for the hospitality industry (hotels, casinos, food and beverage, and educational institutes) in the areas of learning, knowledge management, procurement, and business process and reporting solutions.

Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 4)

SM: Tell me about the origins of BlackLine. What was it and how did you get it started? TT: Officially I started it in 2001, but it really got going in 2002. I started it as a wealth management software company, and I used the money I made from SunGard to fund it.