Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 13)

By guest author Tony Scott The Challenges of Delivering Globally Tony: Are selling your services mostly in the United States and Europe, or do you also have clients in Latin America, Asia, and Africa? Anand: Yes, mostly [in the United States and Europe]. Nothing in Latin America, nothing in Africa. In Asia we are doing

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June 10 Roundtable Recording

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 2)

SM: Where did you go to college, and what did you do there? TM: I first started off at the University of Nebraska – Omaha. I was the first one in my family to go to college. My dad said I did not need to go to college and that I could stay back and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Randy: So, getting back to our revenue model, it’s membership, renewals, and then we rely on sponsors to help us grow and underwrite our employees. Finally, we charge an administrative fee for companies to present, and that fee – in smaller chapters it’s less and in robust

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do these local chapters operate? Randy: They have great autonomy, but conversely, they enjoy the structure and the model that we’ve developed over the past ten years. It started off in the East Bay of Northern California. Keiretsu Forum started in September 2000, and the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fifth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. Our guest today is Randy Williams, founder and CEO of Keiretsu Forum, a growing angel network that currently has 850 investors in 19 chapters around the world. The forum has made 265 investments

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Roundtable Recap: June 10 – Efficient Targeting

Today’s roundtable was a difficult one, as I had to tell an entrepreneur not to proceed with his business that is ready to launch. Shamoon Siddiqui presented MetroFlats.com, a vacation rental marketplace he plans to launch next month.  He says that all the vacation rental sites out there including Vacationrentals.com and FlipKey are directory services,

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