Blue Nile, WebMD Seeing Success With Mobile Apps

According to Forrester, online retail sales in the United States will increase 16% over the year to $52 billion this holiday season. In a survey of 4,700 U.S. online consumers surveyed for the report, 37%said they expect to make holiday purchases on the Web this year, compared with 30% in 2009. Mobile phones are also

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The 1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: AppMakr.com and PointAbout, Washington, DC

As Deal Radar draws to a close for 2010, it’s fitting that one of final companies to be covered has its finger on the pulse of many of the decade’s important tech trends. AppMakr.com is a “no coding” platform that enables non-developers to create iPhone (and soon Android and Windows) mobile apps for their brands,

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Building A 10 Million Dollar Search Engine Marketing Business: WPromote CEO Mike Mothner (Part 1)

Michael Mothner is the founder and CEO of search engine marketing firm Wpromote. The company has maintained over 2,700% growth from 2003 through 2007. Michael has a degree in economics and computer science from Dartmouth College. Sramana: Mike, what is your story leading up to Wpromote? Where are you from? Mike Mothner: I am 29

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: The biggest challenge that I see from a venture perspective for me, personally, is how do you scale yourself and your time? Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. I can tell you that if I wanted to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: From your point of view, where is the industry today in terms of adopting a cloud-based model such as your local design vault and a cloud-based release design vault where designs from participating designers all over the world sit? Is that a reality today, is that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Martin Silverman, Director IT at EvensonBest (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I guess the reason I asked for clarification about data sharing was to ascertain whether you are running what we call an extended enterprise, which I think you are. The IT infrastructure that you are running is actually being used by people outside of your employees.

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From 0 To 31 Million Dollars With Search Engine Marketing & Inventory Financing: Kim Pedersen, CEO of 1000 Bulbs (Part 7)

Sramana: How big is your search engine optimization department today? Kim Pedersen: There is just one person there, Jeremy, who manages the marketing campaigns. He manages the entire portfolio of keywords. I give him free coffee every day, too!

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 11)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: Just because a venture guy doesn’t invest in something or rejects something doesn’t make it a bad company. In fact, I would argue that the vast majority of companies that have been created in the world were not venture backed and have been super successful. Having

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