Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your educational background? Eric: I have a bachelor’s of science from Brown University. I sold scientific instrumentation for number of years out of college, and then I went back to Dartmouth for an MBA. I graduated in 1980 and came out to work for

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Sramana Mitra In Bangalore To Hold Workshop On Lean Startups At NASSCOM Product Conclave On Tuesday, November 9

Sramana Mitra will be in Bangalore, India to conduct a free workshop on Lean Startups on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at 5:15 p.m.  You can find more details and register here.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Vimagino ,Bangalore,India

By guest author Hema Kalsha Vimagino creates intelligent software agents called angels, which can sense and respond to human emotions in customer interaction. These artificial agents can provide intelligent, interactive customer interaction during sales and support processes on websites. These angels have proved to be successful in converting 65% more visitors into customers than traditional

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1M/1M Private Lounge: Exclusive Access

Entrepreneurs, As promised, we are ready to unveil the 1M/1M Private Lounge to the blog readership. We have listened to your questions and requests, and in the private lounge, you will find a curriculum that includes video lectures, case studies, and pointers to the commonly experienced issues in early stage entrepreneurship. You will also find

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Outsourcing 2.0: oDesk CEO Gary Swart (Part 4)

Sramana: Tell me more about the demographic and psyche of this community that you have created. Who are your contractors? Are they small companies or freelancers? Gary Swart: We are favorable to individuals. I think of them as remote workers. These are people who do not look for a different gig every day.

Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Mark Roberge, VP Of Sales, HubSpot (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana: More than 125% growth, fantastic. Mark, what else should I have asked you about your process that I didn’t ask? Mark: We talked a lot about the metrics. I think that is about it on process. I don’t know if you want to get into the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Venktesh Shukla, Chair, TiE Angels (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: In your work as an angel investor, what are your daily challenges? Venktesh: Well, there’s one company that I really like, and they have a technology which they claim is breakthrough. In concept on paper it looks great, but all the people and all the big

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: We start each monthly meeting with an hour discussion of the 8 to 10 applicants, and everyone has a little anonymous voting machine and we vote on which two we want to present at our next meeting. Once we’ve selected the two to present – and

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