1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Kir DeVries ,Maryland

By guest author Eunice Nyandat The 1M/1M Incubation Radar series returns in time for the holiday season with Kir DeVries, an online store that offers young women moderately priced, fun, upbeat, and unique gifts for their homes. The company’s mission is to help young women live inspired, healthy, and positive lives. The collection of products

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Eunice Nyandat

Eunice Nyandat is the founder of The Errand Manager, a lifestyle management company for professional and entrepreneurial women. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology and a MBA in marketing and management. She has held positions in network security, product management, and information technology security with Fortune 500 corporations. Eunice actively volunteers with several

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Catching Up On Readings: PINK Means Business

One of this week’s Deal Radar companies is PINK, a multimedia company focused on women who work and designed to be a resource on a variety of career and money issues – everything from whether it’s best to pay off a mortgage or invest, to social media mistakes. Click on the full article to read

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think entrepreneurs should take the lead and ask for help? Kiki: I’ll tell you one thing entrepreneurs should really do. Once they have investors who’re investing in their company, they should give them regularly scheduled updates no matter what.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your preferred type of investment? Brian: It’s preferred shares in a traditional equity financing. If we do a note, it’s usually a convertible piece of debt with a cap. Going back to that original comment, we don’t like our money being used to drive

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Kiki: We try to direct people if we know that there’s a particular grant opening, but, generally, we wouldn’t be the best source for being the repository of all that information. Irina: What is the best way to learn about cleantech grants? Kiki: I would go to

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: I already mentioned how inundated we are just trying to keep up with the deals we have coming to us. I would never sleep if then tried to turn around on every deal that we pass on and try to make other introductions on their behalf.

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Smart Manufacturing With Cloud Computing (Part 2)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini Continuing the discussion, Eyal Altman says, “Now that we have this Force platform to work on, with all these applications that are built for this environment, we are in the process of deploying a new application for customer on-boarding process using Salesforce. It’s more efficient than how companies on-board customers

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