Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chenoa Farnsworth, Executive Director, Hawaii Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-third interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Chenoa Farnsworth, executive director of Hawaii Angels, a non-profit organization of about 80 angel investors that has chapters on Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island. Irina: Hi, Chenoa. Let’s start briefly

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Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 1)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev After a few hiccups, it was great to finally meet Indus Khaitan, partner at The Morpheus, an incubator out of India, face-to-face over lunch. We were talking to Khaitan as part of a new series, an exploration of how business incubators are doing their part in advancing

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Let’s switch the discussion to security; what are your perspectives on cloud security? PS: Security is definitely part of it, along with the larger governance issues of outsourcing, hosting, or moving applications to the cloud. I am also talking about moving integration into the cloud .

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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, October 28

For entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and all aspects of a startup venture, this FREE online strategy roundtable will begin at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST on Thursday, October 28, 2010.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Morphing a Consulting Business to a Cloud Computing Product Company: Bill Loumpouridis, CEO of EDL (Part 1)

Bill Loumpouridis is the CEO and founder of EDL Consulting. Prior to EDL he served as vice president of CRM at iXL, regional customer relationship management (CRM) practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, founder of Strategic Technology Resources (STR), founded Strategic Technology Resources, and served as an executive manager at Lante Corporation. He studied math and computer

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you help entrepreneurs if you get a chance to know them better? Dave: If we got very far along in the process and didn’t for some reason decide to invest, or the entrepreneur didn’t decide to pursue with us – or vice versa –

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Catching Up On Readings: Fashion In The Digital Age

Clotheshorses will want to check out my JackThreads interview and the StyleCaster Deal Radar post, both of which explore the intersection of the Internet and fashion. Click on the full article to read these and the rest of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Take me through how a SaaS vendor like MercuryGate sits in this. Is MercuryGate receiving data through Liaison, or do you send data to MercuryGate?