Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: So, if we take a company like Scvngr, which is among our alumni, when they applied [the founder] was a 17-year-old from Princeton who was a technologist, very savvy, visionary, but he really needed someone to build out more of the front-end sales and marketing operations

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Building An Outsourcing Company In China: Bleum CEO Eric Rongley (Part 2)

Sramana: When you decided to start Bleum in 2001, what area of outsourcing did you intend to focus on? Eric Rongley: I was doing product development when I was in India and had teams as large as 100 people. I saw companies like Infosys that were very small, and I realized that companies that understood

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What are your core benefits? Kerry: We provide a lot of the same types of services that you will see in other accelerator programs, but I will describe them just to make sure we talk about them, and then we will talk about a couple of

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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 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Julia Rosen, associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship at Arizona State University about the Venture Catalyst program at ASU. Irina: Hi, Julia. Let’s start with a brief overview. Julia: The Venture Catalyst is the new entrepreneurial platform at Arizona State University that

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TiE Chennai, TiE Mumbai, Indian Angel Network Co-Hosting 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday March 31

As a prelude to the upcoming in-person roundtables with Sramana Mitra in India next month, entrepreneurs from Chennai, Mumbai, and Pune interested in discussing their startup ventures are encouraged to pitch during or attend this FREE online strategy roundtable, co-hosted by TiE Chennai, TiE Mumbai, and Indian Angel Network, on Thursday, March 31, 2011, starting

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March 24 Roundtable Poll Winner

Priyanshu Harshavat’s Socioclean 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 An Outsourcing Company In China: Bleum CEO Eric Rongley (Part 1)

Eric Rongley founded Bleum, an outsourcing provider to American and European companies, in August 2001. Prior to founding Bleum, Eric established and ran the Navion (Shanghai) Software Development Company for Capital One Financial. Before his career led him to China, Eric was the general manager for IVR’s (International Voice Register) software development center in India.

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Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Pune On Sunday, April 17

Persistent Systems and IncuCapital are co-hosting this afternoon event with Sramana Mitra for entrepreneurs in Pune, India, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. IST, on Sunday, April 17, 2011. This event is a part of the 1M/1M initiative, started by Sramana Mitra in 2010 with the goal of helping one million entrepreneurs reach $1 million

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