1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Off The Quad

In a new twist on the hyper-local and “daily deals” trends, Off The Quad combines a daily lifestyle, events, and entertainment e-newsletter accompanied by local specials for students at several U.S. universities. It has just launched in time for the fall semester.

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 4)

SM: How does your revenue break down between subscription and ads? JK: About 85% of our revenue comes directly from consumers paying. The other 15% is from advertising.

Outsourcing: Jean Cholka, President and CEO Of Freeborders (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott Managing across Cultures Tony: Do you see a cultural gap between your people in China compared to the U.S. and Western Europe? If so, how do you manage that? Jean: I have a fundamental belief that in the end we are all human beings, so it doesn’t matter what country

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Larry Chaityn, Keiretsu Forum, New York Tri-State Chapters President (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Larry: Some of other things that we have looked at are mobile technology and that weaves itself into media. So, it’s mobile media. We’ve looked at electronic coupons and location-based services. We look at what is the business problem that you are trying to solve as a

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Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the twenty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. Irina is talking to Sean Greene, associate administrator for investment and special advisor for innovation at the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of

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Interview Series With Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing Announced

To help bring entrepreneurs closer to thought leaders and early adopters in cloud computing, Sramana Mitra has launched a new series of in-depth interviews – Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing. You can find the announcement and more details here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 1)

As enterprises across industry verticals around the globe are drawn into the obvious benefits of adopting cloud computing to begin their own cloud journeys, IT management solution providers such as CA Technologies are a unique case study. They not only deploy cloud computing–based technologies and solutions within their organization and reap huge benefits in their business processes, they also deal with issues of supporting their offerings. Before the advent of the cloud, their offerings were mostly on-premise. Now such companies are moving these offerings to the new SaaS-based model, making them cloud ready, so to speak. In addition, large companies as always are on the lookout for technology acquisitions which can augment their portfolios. This is where the startups part of ecosystem and innovation become relevant, especially with reference to cloud computing.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, Harvard Medical School (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Moving on to the topic of integration, when you put together your cloud strategy, there are a lot of different pieces that need to come together. How do you deal with integration? In terms of strategy, what do you do for integration?