Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you conduct your due diligence? David: With 600 companies, and you’re picking 10 and investing little money and mostly time, diligence is mostly about the people. Again, we know half of them are going to change their ideas. So, we don’t really get into

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March 10 Roundtable Recording

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Capturing Intent In Non-Search Performance Marketing: Zephrin Lasker, CEO Of Pontiflex (Part 7)

Sramana: How much funding have your raised so far? Zephrin Lasker: We have raised under $9 million, and we have generated three times more revenue than capital raised. We are profitable month to month, but we will be investing a lot in the business this year.

Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: So, looking at the next level – beyond middle management, or lower middle management, looking at the senior leadership – what do you think are the key strengths that are going to be necessary for your executive leadership team and their direct subordinates to develop so that you can

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California (Part 1)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi I am talking to Paul Bragiel, managing partner of i/o Ventures, which is a three-month accelerator program for technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The partners of i/o Ventures come from companies like MySpace and BitTorrent, and their mentors are from Yelp, Digg, Mint, Mochi Media, and OpenDNS.

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your mentors’ relationships with the companies? Is there compensation involved? David: No. No compensation. Many of them will go on to be investors or advisors long term. That’s the natural outcome. At the start of the program, the mentors work for free. The reason

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1Mby1M Deal Radar: The Betty Mills Company, San Mateo, California

The Betty Mills Company is an Internet top 500 e-retailer that has taken a traditional low-tech business online by selling cleaning and facility products directly to business customers.

Capturing Intent In Non-Search Performance Marketing: Zephrin Lasker, CEO Of Pontiflex (Part 6)

Sramana: Where are you finding the best traction in mobile advertising? Zephrin Lasker: Our product is called AppLeads. It is one of the only pure in-application advertising solutions available. When you interact with the advertisement, you never have to leave the application.