An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you fund your organization’s work? Marianne: It comes from a combination of membership dues, events and sponsorships. On the ACEF side, it’s a combination of a series of seminars and workshops that we do all over the country and grants from the Kauffman Foundation,

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40 Million Dollar Company, Paying Dividends, Growing Steadily: 3CInteractive CEO John Duffy (Part 3)

Sramana: When you sold that company in 2002, you received a return. Had you had any other returns from other businesses, or was that the first? John Duffy: That was the first, and to date it has been the only exit I have ever had. I did well, but I did not get rich by

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An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fiftieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association. Overland Park, Kansas-based ACA is is a non-profit trade association. It counts among its members more than 150 angel groups throughout the

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, January 20

Chargify will be co-hosting the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, January 20, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs who use Chargify will be given first priority to pitch their businesses, but all are welcome to attend. You can find more details and register here.

January 13 Roundtable Poll Winner

John Boyd’s MeetingWave was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.

1Mby1M Deal Radar: Market Force, Louisville, Colorado

Market Force develops customer intelligence solutions that are designed to enable large, multi-location businesses to see their stores through their customers’ eyes and act faster with confidence, thus increasing the bottom line. The company provides a variety of customer intelligence solutions, including mystery shopping, customer satisfaction, price auditing, merchandising services, and analytics to help companies

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40 Million Dollar Company, Paying Dividends, Growing Steadily: 3CInteractive CEO John Duffy (Part 2)

Sramana: How did you move from MCI to join your mentor’s company? What was the sequence of events? John Duffy: In 1993, when I was at MCI, I had a customer call me and tell me that he had developed a bulletin board system for Star Trek fans. It was a computer program that people

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Roundtable Recap: January 13 – Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade

We started this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade. While

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