Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 3)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: How about a team? Do they have to have a complete team? Nova: No, they have to have the technical lead and the product lead. Irina: Is there any specific character trait you can identify? Nova: I’m usually looking for people who are on the technical side. They have

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Roundtable Recap: September 23 – Do Not Spray And Pray

At today’s roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. You can vote on which one you like most by clicking on our Facebook page. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting. First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: GCI created this “order to cash” service spin-off. Tell me more about what happened and what made you decide to make this move? Are you providing that same “order-to-cash” offering, which is cloud based, to various telecom and utility providers now?

September 23 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording.  Please let us know which business you like best by participating in the poll found here.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: MangoSpring, Bellevue, WA

MangoSpring, with its philosophy of “social collaboration with a purpose,” makes business collaboration and productivity applications that are offered à la carte or as a suite. It is one of several smaller players in collaboration software to challenge the larger Salesforce.com and Cisco.

Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 4)

SM: If I understand your business, you have direct marketing and selling costs to the insurance companies. Is that correct? BO: Half of our growth every year is word of mouth. We sign up 1,200 new practices a month, which represents anywhere from 3,500 to 4,000 new doctors a month. Half of those come in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nova Spivak, West Coast (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: From all the sources, do you have an idea how many pitches you get a month? Nova: I would say it’s probably about five to ten a month. Irina: Out of those five to ten, how many deserve a closer look? Nova: Usually one or maybe two.

Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: It would it would seem to me that there’s a huge value proposition in someone being able to say: “We’ve got this kind of talent and we could apply it when you need it. And then when you don’t need the world’s most brilliant expert on RF antenna design,

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