Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center, Midland, Michigan (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Ken Kousky, CEO of MidMichigan Innovation Center, which is a privately funded, nonprofit organization working to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses in central Michigan. MMIC operates a 112,000 square foot business incubator with significant support from The Dow Chemical Company. The center operates

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any special initiatives at the moment? David: We just launched the TechStars network, which is based on massive inbound demand for programs around the world that wanted to use this deep mentorship and community model. We essentially just open-sourced TechStars, and we call

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Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software (Part 3)

Sramana: What were you charging initially for your per-seat user license? Jacques Soumeillan: It was around €2,000 per user. We were able to develop a strong business on that model. We started some international enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors outside of France primarily because of that success. Our international work started in Montreal and Chicago.

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Employees First, Customers Second (Part 3)

By guest author Vineet Nayar [The miniseries from Vineet Nayar’s book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down continues with an excerpt from the third stage of the EFCS process: Inverting the Organizational Pyramid. Nayar is the vice chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies. His book is available from Harvard Business Press; on Amazon, Powell’s Books,

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold David: TechStars has a long-term view – a 20-year view. It’s not just about what these [entrepreneurs] do in their first companies. It’s about what the founders do after that. Rob Johnson [of EventVue] is now in a high-level position at Gnip, a company in Boulder that’s doing

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Partner Event

AMITA, Foster City, California – March 24, 2011 AMITA, the Association of MIT Alumnae, is holding a Women Entrepreneur Panel on Thursday, March 24, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at IBM in Foster City, CA. Come and be inspired by a panel of distinguished women from a variety of industries who have taken different paths

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Kolkata Memoirs: Two Short Stories on Kindle

Readers, some of you know that I have a deep interest in literature. I have, from time to time, written fiction and poetry but have not shared that much with you. Well, recently, I read about a young writer who has been using Kindle and e-books to share her work with her readers, and decided

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Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software (Part 2)

Sramana: Were you intending to sell primarily to manufacturing companies in the South of France? Jacques Soumeillan: We were selling very quickly throughout all of France. We did focus on selling to manufacturing companies.