The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2011, 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.
Jamin Arvig is a serial entrepreneur who is a founder of WaterFilters.Net. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering as well as a law degree. After practicing patent law for a period, he decided to maintain a focus on business which led to increased effort being place on WaterFilters.Net, a business he started in
By Sramana Mitra and Melanie Blake Deal Radar ends 2010 with a company that has made as many headlines this year as it has dollars – Groupon. Just a few weeks after turning down a $6 billion offer from Google, Groupon plans to raise $1 billion in private funds. First reported on VC Experts and
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: They say in the angel business, the real problem companies are the ones that keep existing. They don’t go up; they don’t go down. They just stay in place. That’s why it’s so important to look for companies that do have the opportunity for scalability. But
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Right. I think what you are getting at is exactly the trend that I too have spotted in the context of cloud and EDA – the collaboration aspect of an electronic designer’s life. The EDA workflow can be impacted heavily by cloud computing. For an entrepreneur,
How do you achieve that delicate balance between the old and the new and find both depth and lightness – depth that moves at an emotional and spiritual level, lightness that moves us forward? From Top 10 Tech Trends For The Decade: Over 500 million people on Facebook indicates a massive shift in how consumers
Sramana: What role do inbound links to a site really play? There seems to be ambiguity and controversy around link-building techniques. Mike Mothner: You can have 10 experts in a room and get 10 different answers, hopefully with some overlap. Fundamentally, the best links are those which are not negotiated or traded for.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: In the past 12 months, how many new investments has New York Angels made? Brian: I’m going to say probably eight, which I hear is pretty good during a recession, and maybe five or six add-on investments. Irina: Can entrepreneurs who are not based in New