Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 10)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: I think you have to start with [an open] mindset as the prerequisite; it is pretty hard to train someone to be open minded if they are not open minded already. Amit: If you look at Andrew’s background, Andrew was born and brought up in the United States, but

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold David: One of the things that is I think unique about TechStars is our incentive structure. We are like a co-founder. So, the pitch to the entrepreneur is, If you could have a co-founder for 6 percent of your common stock who had this sort of network

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California (Part 3)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: What are your relationships with mentors? Do they get any stake in those companies or do they just want to help? Paul: They just want to help. One, it is exciting for them. Two, it gives them lots of visibility and, yes, it is really useful

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs In Latin & Central America On Thursday, March 17

Entrepreneurs in Latin and Central America will be the focus of the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, March 17, 2011, starting at: 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are welcome to pitch their businesses or attend. You can find more details and register here.

March 10 Roundtable Poll Winner

Edward Varghese’s i-Globify 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.

Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software (Part 1)

Sramana: Jacques, to start, let’s go over your background. Where do you come from? Jacques Soumeillan: I am from Toulouse. My parents came to Toulouse from the countryside, so I was raised in the city with a very modest upbringing. I did all of my studies here, including college. I was able to study engineering

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: What are the core benefits to entrepreneurs that you bring to the table? Paul: My three partners have all started businesses that you know, and in total there are hundreds of millions of users. We started companies that did quite well, and [with i/o Ventures], we

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Roundtable Recap: March 10 – Spotlight On India

For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin, a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. Nimesh has a couple of corporations that are interested in beta testing

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