October 14 Roundtable Poll Winner

Chak Onn Lau’s Foldees was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: CrowdEngineering, Pisa/Silicon Valley

CrowdEngineering is the developer of CrowdForce, a “business process crowdsourcing” SaaS platform, and of solutions to enable companies to crowdsource customer service, with expert customers supporting others. One of the major aims is to cut the amount of money companies spend on customer service.

Accelerating Global E-Commerce: Adyen Cofounder Peter Caparso (Part 5)

Sramana: Aside from gaming, what other verticals have you been able to penetrate? Peter Caparso: We have worked very successfully with software and music downloading, retail, and we are just starting to get into the airline sector. We are negotiating right now with a large airline. We look for global sectors with good reach.

Roundtable Recap: October 14 – Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

At today’s roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities – $500 million to a billion. But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Lewis Hower, executive director of University Impact Fund, which bills itself as the first student-run social impact seed financing organization for entrepreneurs that intends to deliver a return to its investors.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made? Dave: It’s a little hard to keep track at times, those deals are things that I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year, probably 43, maybe 44 in calendar year 2010. Although the fund’s only been operating for

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October 14 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here. Please let us know which business you like best by participating in the poll found here on our One Million By One Million Facebook page.

Musings On Durga Pujo

To all my Bengali readers out there, wish you a very happy durga pujo. We have pujo at our ancestral home in Calcutta, and I must say, I miss it terribly. One of the big upsides of India’s recent boom is that opportunities for professional growth and actualization have become available closer to home. While

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