Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-seventh interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Mike Hirshland, General Partner at Polaris Ventures. The firm invests in seed, first round, and early stage technology and life science businesses. Headquartered in Boston, it has currently over $3 billion

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: In our last financing, we, the Oregon Angels Fund, put in $650,000; there was another $440,000 that came in from just our investors who are within our group. That was a record but typically, one of our investments is followed by a $100,000 to $200,000 of

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

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, November 11, 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.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: iCIMS

iCIMS is a Web-based talent management platform that is designed to handle the entire talent life cycle. Colin Day founded iCIMS.com in 1999 and is the company’s president and CEO. Prior to founding iCIMS, Day worked at Comrise Technology in sales and new business development, where he was responsible for opening and growing branch offices.

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Outsourcing 2.0: oDesk CEO Gary Swart (Part 5)

Sramana: Tell me more about the work management portion of your platform. Gary Swart: The management portion is also interesting. We have a lot of customers in the U.S. who are hiring onshore workers. Hiring onshore workers is tricky because companies would like to assume everybody is a contractor, but the IRS would like to

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Roundtable Recap: November 4 – Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

At today’s roundtable I offered a sneak preview into the One Million by One Million Premium Lounge we have just unveiled to a small group of core users. To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs, To Investors, and To The Media. The premium lounge includes an online

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Live 1M/1M Roundtable With Sramana Mitra In Bangalore On November 9th

Immediately following her free workshop on Lean Startups at NASSCOM’s Product Conclave, Sramana Mitra will be conducting a live 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs next Tuesday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m.  This free event, hosted by YourStory.in, offers Sramana’s readers and ambassadors in Bangalore the rare opportunity to meet her in person. Full details and information on registering to

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November 4 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here. You can choose which business you like the best through a poll on our Facebook page.