Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center, Midland, Michigan (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you use a lot of volunteer mentors? Ken: Yes. Our mentor profiling is I’ll work for fame and feeling good or I’ll work for fortune. If you want to work for fortune, then you want to eventually get paid, or you’ll take equity. We’re letting

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March 17 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software (Part 7)

Sramana: Of all the competitors you started out against, it looks as though Selectica is the only one still around. Do you run into them in the marketplace often? Jacques Soumeillan: They don’t have very many customers now. We are looking for some business that they had prior, but we have new competitors now such

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1M/1M: Mobile and Social Apps Module Of The Curriculum Is Ready

Readers, we have just released the Mobile and Social Apps module of the 1M/1M premium curriculum. In it, you will find a synthesis of the various trends and opportunities that I see at this point, along with case studies and video lectures. I will do an additional module specifically focused on Gaming, coming soon.

Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center, Midland, Michigan (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ken: I wish you could interview all of our ribbon partners. We have work going on in Cadillac, Michigan, in Claire, Michigan, in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in Marlette, Michigan. Some of these are pretty small towns. We’ve got groups supporting small businesses, bringing them what we believe

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Hatsize, Calgary, Canada

The 1M/1M Deal Radar heads north to feature Hatsize, a cloud automation software company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. From its place at the intersection of buyer and seller, Hatsize provides hands-on demos, proofs of concept (POC), and training to technology companies’ prospects, channel partners, and customers by using virtual private cloud technology to fully automate

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Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software (Part 6)

Sramana: Has the manufacturing business come back? Are you getting sales from the manufacturing companies? Jacques Soumeillan: The manufacturing business is still there. We like to keep our existing customers. We are still developing and improving that product. It is our core knowledge, and we will continue to focus on it.

Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center, Midland, Michigan (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ken: To me, the concept of saying we’re an incubator is somewhat arrogant. I’ve run two venture-backed companies that have IPO’ed. I’ve run a public company for years, after our IPO. I’ve been through those, and I found that there were lots of people who showed up

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