An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fifty-second interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. We are talking to Joe Migliaccio, manager of Innovative Programs at Maine Technology Institute (MTI), an industry-led non-profit corporation that offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance in the form of competitive grants, loans, and equity investment

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Rick Blaisdell, CTO Of ConnectEDU (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Elementary, secondary, and university education in the United States is rapidly evolving to address the needs of changing times and those of a competitive and more flat world. Until now, publishers have generally been responsible for providing learning material, a lot of which takes the form of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I would like to know what your thoughts are on entrepreneurial opportunities, some of the blue-sky opportunities in the context of cloud computing. This interview is part of program I run called One Million by One Million, and we want a million entrepreneurs to earn a

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Bootstrapping From Arizona To 36 Million Dollar Series A Valuation And Silicon Valley Venture Capital: Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask (Part 6)

Sramana: What was raising your first venture round like? Clate Mask: First, we developed our long-term strategy. We decided to build an integrated marketing and sales system that small businesses could use to grow their businesses quickly. We raised a small angel investment [round] in 2007, where we took on $500,000 as debt that we

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 6)

Irina: How do you manage your time? Jason: It’s fluid. If you’re late in diligence on a substantial investment, you’re going to spend an inordinate amount of time working on that.

Introducing Hot Topics

Readers, we’ve just introduced a new feature on the blog called Hot Topics which showcases some of the best and most active discussions we’ve been having on this blog. Most of these topics are pretty evergreen, non-news specific, and have, over time, garnered continued interest. Now, we’re making it available to you as a permanent

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: That covers our discussion on collaboration. I think collaboration is one of the biggest trends in the cloud environment today. My vision is to see more desktop telepresence.

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For E-Commerce Entrepreneurs On Thursday, January 27

Volusion will be co-hosting the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, January 27, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. E-commerce entrepreneurs who work with Volusion will be given first priority to pitch their businesses, but all are welcome to attend. You can find more details and register here.