Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: No founder has the complete package. Whether it’s great technical chops or product chops or business and strategy acumen, you never have a founder who has all of that. When you define what the company needs to do, during the next, say, 12 to 24 months,

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: PAC Labs/GILD, San Francisco, California

PAC Labs creates solutions to help employers the best technology talent anywhere in the world. The company’s flagship product is GILD, a tool that PAC Labs describes as “where social gaming meets career advancement.”

Outsourcing 2.0: oDesk CEO Gary Swart (Part 8)

Sramana: Transcription is not necessarily easy, especially if you are doing highly technical transcription. Transcription is just an example. Translation is another area where there is a ton of work. Gary Swart: There is a lot of work in translation. We have large customers coming to us asking for translation. They do not want PhD

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Why do you think you were not successful at investing in people right out of school? What did you learn from that experience? Eric: There are a lot of mistakes one makes in one’s youth, and no matter what you suggest to these folks as an

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, from all your sources, how many applications do you personally get per month? Mike: That’s a good question. Hundreds. Irina: Out of those hundreds, how many deserve a closer look? Mike: I would say maybe 8 to 10 are worth pondering to some extent.

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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, November 11

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

Start-Ups: Can You Handle The Truth?

In case you missed it, Adriana Gardella with the New York Times recently covered the roundtables in her post Start-Ups: Can You Handle The Truth?

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: GlobeTask

“Anybody can go offshore and find somebody for four bucks an hour. But to find somebody who understands your culture and speaks your language, and knows where you’re coming from, that’s one step up,” says Josh Last, CEO and founder of GlobeTask, of his company’s approach. How important is the cultural factor? Tony Scott’s interviews

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