Can You Do It All? Amy Pressman, President of Medallia (Part 7)

Sramana: Your customers seem to be your best form of marketing. Amy Pressman: We think about things like client services as a form of marketing. If you really wow your customers, they will take care of you.

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An Interview With Ankur Jain, Founder And President, Kairos Society (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: The goal to take some of these students who would have otherwise gone the traditional corporate route and get them to embrace this idea that with a community of like-minded peers, knowing they have the support and guidance of top mentors from around the world, [they

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The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: One of the things about the kinds of companies that we uncover and work with is that they are in need of a great deal of help. Rather than a large, urban, metropolitan area where a company that is very early stage may come with a

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Dura Doggie

As part of the blog’s renewed focus on college entrepreneurs, today’s Deal Radar features Dura Doggie, a combination e-commerce and traditional retailer that designs and sells dog toys, but with a socially conscious bent. The company has an unusual business model – it donates 20% of its profits to four affiliated causes in a program

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Can You Do It All? Amy Pressman, President of Medallia (Part 6)

Sramana: As an entrepreneur, how do you balance the equity stake of founders and early employees with the inevitable exit? Amy Pressman: Silicon Valley is very much about technology and innovation. There is also a lot of innovation in how companies are started, run, and dealt with. If you look at more traditional liquidity events

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1M/1M Content Internships

Readers, I am looking for a few interns to augment the content team supporting this blog and the 1M/1M agenda. You have, by now, become familiar with some of the work we do on specific topics like cloud computing, outsourcing, seed capital, incubators, sales 2.0, healthcare IT, mobile and social apps, gaming, e-commerce and web

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ViVu Offer For DimDim Customers

Readers, as you know, DimDim, our longtime partner for the 1M/1M strategy roundtables, has recently been acquired by Salesforce.com. Following the acquisition, Salesforce turned off all of the free accounts that DimDim had so generously supported. We have since moved to the ViVu video conferencing platform, and gone from an audio/Web conferencing experience to an

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An Interview With Ankur Jain, Founder And President, Kairos Society (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: Today, in this interconnected world, you can have a Chinese entrepreneur start a company with an American entrepreneur. You can take the best of both countries to create a single company that’s inherently multinational and multicultural. This product can be, from day one, sold in two

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