Ritwik Mukherjee with the Financial Chronicle discussed the One Million by One Million initiative with Sramana Mitra for his article, Innovative Ways To Incubate Small Biz Ideas. You can read the entire article here.
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Do you see that happening with high-powered clouds? Do you see any SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com creating offerings that are going to be deployed in a completely private cloud mode? DH: I think I’m not sure what Salesforce.com has planned. I’m not really engaged with those
Entrepreneurs, 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.
Jimmy Hendricks’ Deal Current 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.
For-profit educational institutions are under tighter scrutiny with Senate and House committees examining their admission process, which seems to mislead applicants, targets veterans and registers student default rates at least double those of traditional universities. According to a Congressional report released earlier this month, for-profit colleges have high dropout rates, poor results, and high loan
The launch of Groupon just over two years ago sparked a remarkable, if sometimes overhyped, trend for group buying. Now, even companies such as Yahoo! want some of the action. What’s more, the group-buying model is changing and evolving as players such as Deal Current become part of the mix. Deal Current is a white-label
Sramana: What was the first thing you did with the $5,000 you had in order to start your own business? Kim Pederson: I spent $3,200 of it on a computer. Even at that time, I don’t think my brain stem was connected to my cerebral cortex yet. It was a bad mistake but it worked
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Saad: I think the interesting thing about the world today is that if you put a small amount of money to work, companies with even small amount of returns – you know, with the $20 million to $50 million to $70 million exits – can still be