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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: MangoSpring, Bellevue, WA

Posted on Thursday, Sep 23rd 2010

MangoSpring, with its philosophy of “social collaboration with a purpose,” makes business collaboration and productivity applications that are offered à la carte or as a suite. It is one of several smaller players in collaboration software to challenge the larger Salesforce.com and Cisco.

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Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 23rd 2010

SM: If I understand your business, you have direct marketing and selling costs to the insurance companies. Is that correct? BO: Half of our growth every year is word of mouth. We sign up 1,200 new practices a month, which represents anywhere from 3,500 to 4,000 new doctors a month. Half of those come in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: From all the sources, do you have an idea how many pitches you get a month? Nova: I would say it’s probably about five to ten a month. Irina: Out of those five to ten, how many deserve a closer look? Nova: Usually one or maybe two.

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: It would it would seem to me that there’s a huge value proposition in someone being able to say: “We’ve got this kind of talent and we could apply it when you need it. And then when you don’t need the world’s most brilliant expert on RF antenna design,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 6)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In bringing all of this together, what do you see as entrepreneurial opportunities? What are the blue-sky needs for newer solutions in cloud? It sounds like you have done something entrepreneurial yourself by taking this whole order to cash management to the cloud and spun it

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping Can Be Successful

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

Joanne Lang with AboutOne posted the following about Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 2) on Amazon.com: “I was not sure what to expect from this book; however, I read it cover to cover on a flight. It was interesting and provided some useful tips and quotes for a team meeting.

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Aprigo ,Waltham, Massachusetts

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

Aprigo provides data governance and management, storage capacity management, and e-discovery technology solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. The company’s flagship technology, Aprigo NINJA, is available as a freemium solution and as a subscription-based pro version. It’s designed to help organizations gain instant visibility into unstructured data and through its actionable data dashboards so that IT managers

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Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 22nd 2010

SM: Based on the number of customers you have today, how many people have insurance companies laid off due to your technology? BO: I have no idea. We have taken a significant amount of money out of the healthcare budget. SM: I asked that question in a complimentary fashion. Good technology has effects on organizations.

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