Zero To 17 Million Using SEO And PPC, No External Financing: E-Commerce Entrepreneur Mercia Tapping, CEO Of Boston Green Goods (Part 2)

Sramana: In 1998, when you were ready to start your company, what did you do to start it? What were your strategy and offering? Mercia Tapping: What I wanted to do is not very original now, but it was in 1998. I wanted to offer people a place where they could buy a product from

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Roundtable Recap: January 6 – Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

On January 6, 2011, we hosted our 64th FREE One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. We started this week’s roundtable with a discussion of all the resources we have brought together over the last three years to help entrepreneurs, including a comprehensive curriculum for entrepreneurship

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Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any target returns on investments? Andy: Yes, we do have targets. We look at it from a portfolio approach, but generally speaking, we tell people that we’re looking for a 20% IRR.

January 6 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here. You can choose which business you like the best through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: So, you have done more on the pure telecommunications side, where there is call routing and such. CK: It’s the ‘contact center’. We are in the contact center business, so it is all the way up and down the stack. If it is about the contact

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Zero To 17 Million Using SEO And PPC, No External Financing: E-Commerce Entrepreneur Mercia Tapping, CEO Of Boston Green Goods (Part 1)

Mercia Tapping is the CEO of Boston Green Goods, a multi-channel e-commerce business. Her business was named to the Internet Retailer 2007 Top 500 list, and she received the 2004 Stevie Award for Woman Entrepreneurs. Prior to founding Boston Green Goods, she worked as an independent consultant and co-founded an energy consulting business. She is

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Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) For Entrepreneurs: Andy Sack, Co-Founder, RevenueLoan (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What kind of businesses do you prefer? Andy: Think of revenue loan as growth capital for small to medium-sized businesses. The demand for that growth capital is really high. There aren’t many sources of growth capital other than traditional venture capital, sometimes angels. So, there’s a

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Global Sky, Las Vegas, Nevada

Global Sky is a Philippines-based call center that handles inbound, outbound, and back-office support functions. It aims to be a “branch office” for entrepreneurs, a place where they can outsource all non-core functions.