Seed Capital: Mark Solon, Co-Founder And Managing Partner, Highway 12 Ventures — Boise, Idaho (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What factors receive the most weight when debating whether to invest? Mark: It’s a combination of a large market opportunity and a great team. We’re looking for three things: a large market opportunity; a unique and compelling solution to that market opportunity; and a small team

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Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ebony Johnson, Entrepreneurial Programs Champion, TechTown — Detroit, Michigan (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: Do you know how entrepreneurs get evaluated for these loans? Ebony: The loans are based on business worthiness, where they are in their stages of development, who is in place on their team, and the feasibility of their idea, what is their plan, what is their

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Catching Up On Readings: Tech Stocks Branches Out

Readers, you may have noticed that Tech Stocks is broadening its coverage. While you’ll still find high-quality quarterly analysis of stalwarts such as WebMD, I’m adding the to the roster so that Tech Stocks will keep you informed about newsmakers such as Twitter but also about players that may not be in the headlines as

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Become The CEO Of Your Own Destiny: LiveOps CEO And Former eBay COO Maynard Webb, Santa Clara, California (Part 3)

Sramana: What type of person applies to work in your virtual call centers? Maynard Webb: The quality of agent you get is far higher in general because we are sourcing from the entire country versus a constrained region. We have more college-educated folks than call centers anywhere else, but they also work different hours than

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Seed Capital: Mark Solon, Co-Founder And Managing Partner, Highway 12 Ventures — Boise, Idaho (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Mark Solon, co-founder and managing partner of Highway 12 Ventures, which is a $75 million venture fund in Boise, Idaho. Highway 12 invests in high-growth start-up companies in the Intermountain West.

Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ebony Johnson, Entrepreneurial Programs Champion, TechTown — Detroit, Michigan (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Ebony: We have this quadrant approach. If you think of a quadrant, on the X axis there is the stage of business development. So, the company can be in its early, early idea phase, or it can be in its growth phase. Then, on the Y axis

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Partner Events

Indian Angel Network, New Delhi, India – March 24, 2011 AMITA, Foster City, California – March 24, 2011 Indian Angel Network, New Delhi, India – March 24, 2011 Indian Angel Network’s IAN Incubator is holding the workshop, “What Do Angels Look For In Start-Ups Today?” as part of a series to educate aspiring entrepreneurs and

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Become The CEO Of Your Own Destiny: LiveOps CEO And Former eBay COO Maynard Webb, Santa Clara, California (Part 2)

Sramana: How much of the current offering did LiveOps have in place when you joined? Maynard Webb: We did not call anything the cloud back then. We started selling our technology right before I joined. The biggest part of the business was the agent business.