Building A 10 Million Dollar Search Engine Marketing Business: WPromote CEO Mike Mothner (Part 3)

Sramana: How much did you charge your first client? Mike Mothner: Our fee back then was $250 a month to manage her budget. Her budget was $1,000 a month.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: That is interesting to know. You are saying that for large file transfers you, don’t use any of the services like youSENDit? AP: Typically not. Obviously, there are a few places within Altium where people individually use such services. Some of my IT team use a

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: At the age of about 28 or 29, I ran into a guy by the name of Regis McKenna, whom many people to this day don’t know. Regis, who wrote The Regis Touch, was the first real marketing strategist in Silicon Valley. He announced Apple computer,

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Merry Christmas

To all those who celebrate Christmas, let me wish you a wonderful holiday weekend with lots of good food. I am making a Moroccan lamb tajine for Christmas lunch tomorrow. Do feel free to share what you all are making this weekend. And while on the topic of food and cooking, I want to share

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Building A 10 Million Dollar Search Engine Marketing Business: WPromote CEO Mike Mothner (Part 2)

Sramana: So you graduated from Dartmouth, turned down Goldman Sachs, and decided to focus on Wpromote. What was your next move? Mike Mothner: It was June of 2003, and I moved back to L.A. I had a good idea what I wanted to do to expand Wpromote. I was using PPC to drive an organic

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-seventh interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Brian Cohen, vice chairman of New York Angels. The group offers early stage capital in the range of $250,000 to $750,000. Since 1997, the group and members of their predecessor group

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the architecture that you are using to build and roll out something like this? I presume that this cloud computing discussion is relevant to this new marketplace, this electronics marketplace that you are developing, right?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I now have a fair picture of what you are trying to do with cloud computing. We have talked mostly about your infrastructure, about security and privileges. What about other services? What about other business functions that a lot of people are moving to the cloud,

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