Roundtable Recap: October 28 – Convert Potential Competitors To Partners

At today’s roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. Antonio has a portfolio of web based business process management applications for

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 4)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev Prashant: Out of all pitches you receive, how many deserve a closer look? Nandini: We go through all of them, and based on past data, I can say that we have an initial interaction with at least 50% of them. Sometimes, it will be a great founder

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October 28 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here.  You can select the business presented that you like best through a poll on our One Million By One Million Facebook page.

Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Mark Roberge, VP Of Sales, HubSpot (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana: Now I understand what you are trying to sell and what segment you are going after. Let’s drill into how you structure your sales process to cater to this. I guess you have three segments, right? For your three different price points? So, in whatever way

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Sramana Mitra To Speak At Entrepreneur Conference On Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Please join Watermark (formerly FWE&E) and Astia for a one-day entrepreneur conference, “By Women – For Women: Money, Markets and Customers,” on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, at the Microsoft Conference Center in San Francisco, California. Sramana Mitra will be speaking about “Built To Enjoy” businesses at 10:30 a.m.  You can find more program details here. 

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Scott Martin, CIO Of Nonni’s Food Company (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Is your architecture a private cloud, or is it hosted on a vendor’s site? Scott: Well, we have a mix of both depending on the applications themselves. In the case of some new applications that we may implement in the future, we are having that debate

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Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 4)

Sramana: Does that mean that your Comergent business went away? Bill Loumpouridis: It did not go away. In 2007, I saw the trend that would take us away from traditional premise-based application development and move us toward cloud development.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kindra Tatarsky, Director of Operations, Golden Seeds (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-fourth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Kindra Tatarsky, director of operations at Golden Seeds, a network of angel investors dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Golden Seeds has more than 150

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