An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can students apply to your incubator? Debera: They cannot be students. They have to have graduated. I don’t want to interfere with their education. So, we take people either when they’ve just graduated, who we feel have the ability and are energized and smart and have

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Outsourcing: Dr. Shami Khorana of HCL America (Part 1)

By guest author Tony Scott This interview, the ninth in Tony’s series, is with Dr. Shami Khorana, who is the president of HCL America, the subsidiary of HCL Technologies, a $3.1 billion business and IT services company with more than 72,000 employees worldwide. Tony Scott: Shami, thanks for taking the time to talk to me

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Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 2)

Sramana: What did you do once you graduated from HEC? Dan Serfaty: I graduated in 1987. I worked for two years in Italy, which is where I met my wife. I worked in marketing. In France, military service was mandatory at the time, and a way to avoid doing it was for the best students

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An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Debera Johnson, founder and executive director of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation. The incubator is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute, which is an art, design, and architecture college in New York City.  Since

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An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do day to day? Danny: There’s no consistency at all. Right now we’re putting together the strategy of how we’re going to execute over the next year. So, there’s lots of consulting with the community and organizations and the board and everybody I

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, February 17

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing all aspects of a start-up venture are welcome to attend the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, February 17, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here.

February 10 Roundtable Poll Winner

Kimbra Orr’s Kimbra Studios 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.

Rolling Up Professional Networks: Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo (Part 1)

Dan Serfaty is the founder and CEO of Viadeo, a company he launched with Thierry Lunati in September 2004. Today it is one of the leading worldwide professional social networks. Viadeo was initially conceived as a club to build bridges between private equity groups and entrepreneurs. Prior to launching Viadeo, he founded a tourism company,

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