Catching Up On Readings: 1M/1M Partnership With Persistent Systems

This partnership with Persistent Systems is an exciting step toward reaching our goal of 1 million entrepreneurs with $1 million in revenue by 2020. Click on the full paragraph to read the rest of this week’s posts.

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: A lot of our population in Maine is pretty concentrated. The benefit of that is you can really power networking within the state, access capital sources, which we help folks with. We’ll make introductions. We’ll do mentoring. We’ll support mentor programs. In the state of Maine,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I see. Let me switch the discussion a bit. You are deeply entrenched in the education information technology world between high schools, colleges, and the state education departments. You almost sit at the cusp of all of these educational bodies. From your vantage point, what do

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Can You Do It All? Amy Pressman, President of Medallia (Part 3)

Sramana: What are the advantages to being in the Valley, from your perspective? Amy Pressman: It is an incredibly energizing location. When you are feeling oppressed by the day-to-day challenges of a startup, it is great to be around other people who have succeeded and are willing to encourage you. There is an energy that

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An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the fees for the peer technical reviews? Joe: There is no application fee to apply to MTI. We will pay the thousands of dollars to go out and get those peer reviews done out of our budget. The internal state folks from industries and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the architecture of your solution in terms of dealing with these fragmented student information systems? How does that work?

Can You Do It All? Amy Pressman, President of Medallia (Part 2)

Sramana: Did you decide to go into the media industry, or did you decide to go somewhere else? Amy Pressman: Unfortunately, coming out of business school in Europe I found that the only jobs that would pay the student loans were in investment banking and consulting. I did that for three years in Norway.

An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: Many times when investors are approached by companies that just have too high a risk profile for them, but there may be opportunity for them to work further on their technology or grow their businesses, we’ll get leads from private sector individuals who say, “As a

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