Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program — Orlando, Florida (Part 1)

By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi I am talking to Tom O’Neal, executive director of the University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program which is a University-driven community partnership that provides training, infrastructure, and professional services for entrepreneurs in central Florida.

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Skip Simms, President And CEO, Ann Arbor SPARK — Ann Arbor, Michigan (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the main reasons that out of the 30 entrepreneurs who apply for your services every month, 25 get rejected? Skip: The main reasons are one, they’re not in the city of Ann Arbor. Our primary stakeholder, which provides a lot of the services, has

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Roundtable Recap: March 3 – Spotlight On The Northwest

At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington. The first, Nitie Mehta from Redmond, Washington, presented Dental Office Services, a business process outsourcing (BPO) concept targeted to help small dental offices

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1M/1M: Cloud Computing Module Of The Curriculum Is Ready

Entrepreneurs, the Cloud Computing module of the 1M/1M curriculum is also ready. In my opinion, this is an area that you can build some exciting companies in, and it is also possible to bootstrap ventures. The module, as usual, contains video lectures and case studies, as well as a discussion of major trends and blue-sky

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March 3 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can read the recap here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Judy Spitz, CIO of Verizon (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini JS: Well, here is an expression that I heard years and years ago. It seems so right to me that I repeat it many times. I think it is very relevant here; it is the expression is about consumer expectations today – the slowest speed I am

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Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 7)

Sramana: What levers are you going to push to accelerate growth? Paolo Juvara: From my perspective, we need to take advantage of our open source background and leverage that from a commercial standpoint. We have a very real pull-and-push effect. Our partners push the product onto the market by finding customers.

Outsourcing: Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Andrew: Over the past decade we have seen globalization evolve, particularly within the call center and BPO marketplace. There was a period from 2002 and 2003 to around 2007 when I spent a lot of time focusing on the emerging markets: India, the Philippines, Peru, the rest of Latin America.

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