1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Latitude Learning, Saline, Michigan

Latitude Learning is an open source, performance-driven software as a service (SaaS) learning management system (LMS) designed to assist training firms, middle-market companies, Fortune 1000 enterprises, and non-profit organizations. 

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Bootstrapping From Arizona To 36 Million Dollar Series A Valuation And Silicon Valley Venture Capital: Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask (Part 5)

Sramana: Let’s explore your friends and family round a bit more. Whom did you choose to approach, what kind of denominations did you take, and what were the pros and cons of your management of that round? Clate Mask: We could not get any banks to lend us any more money because we did not

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Catching Up On Readings: Apple

Steve Jobs made headlines this week when he announced he was taking medical leave. Will his absence hurt the company? I don’t think so, but it could have a dampening effect on the tech industry as a whole. Click on the full paragraph to read this and the rest of this week’s posts.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the usual exit strategies with your portfolio companies? Jason: Acquisition or IPO. It’s no different from others. We do our best to understand who the strategics are and get to know them within the sectors we invest in. Irina: Do you have an idea

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What are you hearing from Microsoft in terms of collaboration? You said you don’t have a lot visibility into the Google products roadmap, but what is Microsoft telling you about its product roadmap? This comment that Google is better at collaboration tools in the office environment

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Bootstrapping From Arizona To 36 Million Dollar Series A Valuation And Silicon Valley Venture Capital: Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask (Part 4)

Sramana: When you first started your PPC campaign, what was the lay of the land? What was your assessment of available keywords that were affordable for you to advertise with? Clate Mask: This was before the days of Google AdWords. Overture had a search term suggestion tool, and it was fascinating to see the number

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other character traits besides leadership that you think are important for entrepreneurs? Jason: I don’t know how to put it, but a nose for making money. I guess what I love is a quantitative orientation with brand sensibility on top of it. It’s

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: With respect to the security concerns, I am hearing the same from a lot of other people. I think that the cloud vendors have a better capacity to provide solid security than what you can provide in your internal IT operation. DM: I have said this

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