Business Incubator Series: Interview With Julia Rosen, Associate Vice-President For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University, Venture Catalyst At ASU — Scottsdale, Arizona (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you engage with companies after they’ve completed the incubation program? Julia: Not as well as we should. This is a struggle that I think most accelerators have. Once you don’t see them quite as frequently, it’s harder to keep track.

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: Do you have any special initiatives at this time? Kerry: I would say our expansion in New York City, which should be our first time operating in the city, this summer. We brought on a locally-based managing director, Mark Wachen, an entrepreneur who was the founder

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1M/1M: The Entrepreneurship Curriculum

I was talking to Apoorv Sharma of the Indian Angel Network this morning and he asked me some questions about the 1M/1M curriculum, which, as I answered them, seemed like questions that may be on other people’s minds as well. So here is an explanation of the 1M/1M curriculum:

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: OK, so, team, traction, social proof, and product are the four criteria. How do you gauge team? Naval Ravikant: Team is hard; we do not meet the people, so we just look at where they have been and what they have done. If they are at Stanford that helps, or on Facebook. All the usual

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Building An Outsourcing Company In China: Bleum CEO Eric Rongley (Part 6)

Sramana: Essentially your company has gained traction by focusing on mission-critical application development for top global corporations, is that correct? Eric Rongley: Exactly. We would argue that a customer should focus on the total cost of the outsourcing versus price per hour. The reason is that we bring a lot of value to the table.

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Sales 2.0: Greg Brush, Vice President Of Sales And Customer Success, InsideView, San Francisco (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada About Greg Brush Greg leads the sales and customer success teams for InsideView. He is a proven sales executive and team leader who brings more than 21 years of software sales experience. Prior to joining InsideView, Greg served as vice president of sales at Movaris, where he

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Julia Rosen, Associate Vice-President For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University, Venture Catalyst At ASU — Scottsdale, Arizona (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any tools that help you to accomplish your mission? Julia: We are, at present, the only U.S. university that is part of the TechStars Network. Being able to access and have a forum in which to talk to other accelerators from around the country

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: Scvngr is our best-known company. They are a mobile game platform that is used both in the B2B space, in that museums and cities can host Scvngr hunts for residents who can explore a community, and also a consumer game, where users can check in at

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