Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Irina: What your usual round size? Brian: I would say that $500,000 to $1.5 million seems to be the magic number for seed rounds; therefore, the valuation could be as low as $1 million and as high as $4 million or $5 million for that level of dilution

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December 2 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording.  

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Sanjay, is there anything else I should have asked you in the context of EMC and cloud computing? Is there anything you wanted to discuss or highlight? Sanjay: At EMC, we are far along in our journey into cloud computing, and I’m going to be bold

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Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 11)

Sramana: What percentage of the bus operators ticket business do you have now? Phanindra Sama: We are at 1% of total business. We have 70% of the automated bus ticket business.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-third interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Kiki Tidwell, an angel investor and board member of the Northwest Energy Angels, a membership organization of private investors who are interested in funding cleantech entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006 and based

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: If we’re rude in how we go about saying no to entrepreneurs, they’re not going to be likely to come back to us with the next idea. For all intents and purposes, we could be wrong. This current idea may be a brilliant one. It just

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: In the context of the cloud, we were discussing some of the key issues that EMC is trying to address. Let me help you understand my question. Entrepreneurs build companies by solving problems; I think the best companies are built when its people are solving a

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VC Aid Should Not Be Sole Focus Of Start-Ups

Peerzada Abrar and Srividya Iyer with The Economic Times captured their conversation with Sramana Mitra while she was in India last week in their article, Venture Capital Aid Should Not Be Sole Focus Of Start-Ups. You can read the entire interview here.