Roundtable Recap: March 31 – Microsoft’s $100,000 India Startup Challenge Grant

At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced our collaboration with Microsoft around a $100,000 grant that they are offering to four Indian entrepreneurs as follows: A $40,000 grant each to two entrepreneurs, one in mobility and one in cloud computing; and a $10,000 grant to two entrepreneurs, also one in each

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March 31 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can read the recap here.

Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile — Santiago (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Jean Boudeguer, executive director of Start-Up Chile, which is a Chilean government program that seeks to attract foreign, high-potential entrepreneurs to come to Chile to bootstrap their businesses.  The mission of the new government and the primary focus of the Ministry of Economy

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: The public funding that DreamIt receives is not contingent on how many of our entrepreneurs are successful. I think that is probably because our investors agree with us that this model of succeed fast or fail fast is valuable. They understand that some of the companies

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: OK, so let’s say I want to send you a set of deal flow, screened deal flow, because in One Million by One Million we don’t advise people to apply for investment too soon and without enough traction. The reason is that 99% of deals are rejected by investors. We want our members

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1M/1M Working With Microsoft On Startup Grants Program

Menlo Park, California – March 31, 2011: The One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative is working with Microsoft on its India Startup Challenge, through which Microsoft BizSpark is offering $100,000 in total grants to four startups with winning ideas in the cloud and mobile categories.  The 1M/1M initiative, set up by Sramana Mitra with the

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Building An Outsourcing Company In China: Bleum CEO Eric Rongley (Part 7)

Sramana: In the manufacturing supply chain, you have the tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 suppliers. In many cases, the tier 1 suppliers are system integrators and they source from the tier 2 and tier 3 suppliers. Do you foresee that type of model developing in the software and IT outsourcing industry? In that

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Sales 2.0: Greg Brush, Vice President Of Sales And Customer Success, InsideView, San Francisco (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana Mitra: Would you talk more about scoring process, the scoring algorithm? Greg Brush: You know, I don’t know all the nuances. I work with the director of demand generation, Rob Richardson, on that. Here is what he says about it: “InsideView uses a fairly sophisticated lead

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