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

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held on 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. All are welcome!

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November 11 Roundtable Poll Winner

Adarsh Jain’s Fippy 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 and listen to the recording found here.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your advice to entrepreneurs? What could they do better? Eric: If you’re out there [working for a big company] and you know your customers well, they’re going to ask for things that the company you work for does not want to provide for some

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: If a company is not coalescing into something where you think it’s a very big outcome, in that case, what you want to do is think about either getting cash flow positive on the existing positive, or if there’s going to be a need for more

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Roundtable Recap: November 11 – African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

I liked all of the companies that were presented at this week’s roundtable. And it was really cool to see a company from Tanzania. I LOVE the international nature of the 1M/1M initiative. First up today was Joshua Schwadron presenting Betterfly, a startup he founded earlier this year that aims to offer an easier way

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Building A Niche E-Commerce Powerhouse: Coastal Contacts CEO Roger Hardy (Part 1)

Roger Hardy is the founder and CEO of Coastal Contacts Inc, the world’s largest online retailer of contact lenses and eyeglasses. While working for a contact lens manufacturer, he became aware of the optical store mark-ups on contact lenses and eyeglasses and recognized an opportunity to serve customers better. As a result he founded Coastal

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Hema Kalsha

Hema Kalsha is the technical director and owner of Titanium Studios, a company focused on creative and exclusive digital media content development. In the recent past she has worked as technical architect. She is a public speaker and has participated in Microsoft webcasts and co-written technical books.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 11)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So your group funded an airline company? Eric: Yes. The interesting part of the story is the business that we invested in is not doing as well as everyone thought it would do; however, the company has been able to bid for a lot of these

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