1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 16

The next 1M/1M free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 16, 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.

Featured Videos

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Ecomowers

By guest author Hema Kalsha While a lot of the discussion about how to reduce fuel emission centers on cars – either trading them for public transportation, car pooling, or more fuel-efficient cars – another common gas guzzler may be overlooked: the lawnmower. There are about 30 million acres (~121,400 square kilometers) of lawn in

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Scrappy Entrepreneurship At Its Best: Fresh Diet CEO Zalmi Duchman (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you get your first clients? Zalmi Duchman: Mostly through Google AdWords. I also put a $150 advertisement in the Miami Herald which ran only for a particular neighborhood. At that point I was focusing only on Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Boca.

Roundtable Recap: December 9 – Where Should You Raise Money?

During this week’s roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously.

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December 9 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here.

Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: There’re probably 600 or 700 federal laboratories, and as I said, their annual research budget is $150 billion. As part of that, there are a number of laws on the books that require the federal laboratories to transfer technology into the commercial, private sector. There are

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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: I probably look at all three of those three C’s, character, credit, and collateral, but from a slightly different angle in that I am most concerned with making sure that that management team is the right team to bring that business to success, and that I can

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Scrappy Entrepreneurship At Its Best: Fresh Diet CEO Zalmi Duchman (Part 2)

Sramana: What year was it when you finally decided to leave real estate and start Fresh Diet? Zalmi Duchman: It was November 2005. I was 25 years old with a 4-year-old daughter and a pregnant wife.