Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Will your new Independence Equity fund be making seed investments? Michael: It will be the first institution round, so typically it will be series A and series B type investments. Depending on how large the fund gets to be down the road, the size of investments

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What e-mail system did Westmont College use before IT started exploring cloud-based solutions? RS: We were using Postfix. It is an open source–based product, but our e-mail scale had grown so dramatically over the years and the storage behind it was getting problematic.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: ShopIgniter, Portland, Oregon

As we saw in the recent Tech Stocks post on Amazon and eBay, retail analysts expect e-commerce to increase at a much higher rate than traditional sales this November and December. Social commerce is still small: blogs and social networking sites are the first step in the shopping process for just 3% of customers. But

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Building A Niche E-Commerce Powerhouse: Coastal Contacts CEO Roger Hardy (Part 5)

Sramana: Did you build your entire company through debt financing, or did you eventually take equity? Roger Hardy: We did eventually take equity. In 2004, we did a small IPO on the Canadian Venture Exchange. We raised $6 million at that time based on a $30 million valuation. Our revenue at the time was $24

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dr. Reed Sheard, CIO Of Westmont College (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini In the multibillion-dollar market of higher education in the United States, we see an interesting trend whereby a combination of IT people and college communities are playing the role of an active “lead user” and using the cloud computing paradigm to make campus life simpler and information

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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, November 18

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held this Thursday, November 18, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you give us a timeline of your career up to this point? Michael: I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. I studied international relations and economics. It was basically an East Asian studies within the international relations. I studied Japanese, and I spoke

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Christina Brodbeck, Silicon Valley (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you look for in the people? I see you’re very young yourself.  What kind of experience do you look for in the people? Christina: For two of the companies I’ve invested in, the founders have been very young. I think both of them were

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