Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How long do you usually prefer to hold a company in your investment portfolio? Kiki: We’d like to hold it five years or less, but the market now is more of an eight-year hold. Depending on the product, some of these are being acquired much earlier.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: We talked about entrepreneurs’ past experience and how much weight it carries when they are looking for funding. Brian: It’s obviously better if you can grab, as an example, a Brian Lee, who is a co-founder of LegalZoom, and then founded Shoe Dazzle. You can look

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Smart Manufacturing With Cloud Computing (Part 1)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini In producing our series Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing (TLCC), which involves interviews with CIOs and top executives across industry verticals, we are finding that cloud computing is rapidly moving from early adopters to mainstream organizations. According to IDC, cloud computing adoption is growing at over six times, as compared

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1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 9

The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 9, 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. All are welcome!

December 2 Roundtable Poll Winner

David Ciccarelli’s Voices.com was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.

Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 12)

Sramana: What you describe about the call center and the home delivery service is OK for India. In countries that have low-cost labor, there are more opportunities for mixing high tech efficiencies with high-touch customer service. That becomes harder in countries where labor is more expensive. It is an interesting model. Phanindra Sama: It can

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Roundtable Recap: December 2 – Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

During this week’s roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program’s plans around supporting social enterprises. Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many deals have you funded since inception in 2006? Kiki: On our website, it says over $3 million in 18 companies. But this year, our total investment year to date is $926,000 in seven deals, and that’s in 11 months. Well, it’s 10 months, because

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