Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program — Orlando, Florida (Part 2)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Tom: It is our job to figure out how to help entrepreneurs. We have about forty people in the area who donate their time and effort to help these companies. There is a lot of peer help going on among the entrepreneurs. We also provide free accounting

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Skip Simms, President And CEO, Ann Arbor SPARK — Ann Arbor, Michigan (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can you name some success stories? Skip: Compendia Bioscience is one company that literally took full advantage every program that SPARK offers. It’s a cancer diagnostic. It’s a software product that helps drug manufacturers and developers identify the best course of action in trying to cure

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AngelList, CapLinked, And Financing Marketplaces

AngelList has been generating  a lot of buzz recently. Today, Business Insider has a piece claiming that they are scaring VCs to death. Really? I have a hard time believing that! In any case, I thought this would be a good time to give readers my perspective on AngelList, as well as other fund raising

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Indian Angel Network Co-Hosting 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On March 10

Indian Angel Network (IAN) is co-hosting the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, March 10, 2011, starting at: 9:30 p.m. IST/8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST. 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 3 Roundtable Poll Winner

Dan Stewart’s Happy Grasshopper 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.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What applications have you moved to the cloud? You have described the principle of which applications you are moving. Would you give me examples of those that fit that model?

Capturing Intent In Non-Search Performance Marketing: Zephrin Lasker, CEO Of Pontiflex (Part 1)

Zephrin Lasker is CEO and co-founder of Pontiflex, a mobile and online sign-up ads platform. He has been involved with online marketing since its inception more than a decade ago. Zephrin is a serial entrepreneur, having launched Beautility.com prior to Pontiflex. Sramana: Zephrin, let’s start at the beginning of your story. What is your background?

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Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: What do you think is driving your clients to use outsourcing overall, and why do you think they are choosing you over other BPO and inbound call center providers? Andrew: I think the value proposition for outsourcing is essentially that it is better, faster, and cheaper. If you talked

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