Entrepreneurs interested in discussing all aspects of a start-up venture are welcome to attend the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, February 10, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here.
Tuanni Price’s Zuri Wine Tasting 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.
Karl Maier is the founder and CEO of Market Force Information. Prior to founding Market Force Information, he was the executive chairman of the board of Vector ESP, a provider of professional information technology services. Before Vector, Mr. Maier was the chief executive officer of VIA NET.WORKS, a public international Internet service provider. Prior to
For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we partnered with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). India, as you all know, is a rising power in the entrepreneurship firmament, and the country’s entrepreneurs are making a long-awaited switch from pure outsourcing and labor arbitrage to now venturing into building Internet companies, cloud businesses, and,
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the benefits of being a Kairos Society fellow? Ankur: For example, one of the most exciting things we did, this past September, was we took 50 of our fellows to China with Alibaba.com. We took them to look at U.S.–China trade opportunities.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: We help to organize a network of angel investors in this rural area. We provide them with a professional fund manager and help them to determine their offering to each other, the agreements they have, and the processes by which they will evaluate companies and invest
The advent of iPads, Kindles and e-books coupled with cost effective, efficient, and scalable cloud computing technology is creating a big churn in the traditional publishing industry. Environmental concerns on electronic publishing aside, cloud computing seems to benefit the newer trends in publishing world such as ‘self publishing’ that does entail a fair amount of additional effort from the authors as opposed to traditional publishing, but helps in terms of scale, costs and time to publish.