Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ebony Johnson, Entrepreneurial Programs Champion, TechTown — Detroit, Michigan (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi I am talking to Ebony Johnson, Entrepreneurial Programs Champion at TechTown, Detroit’s research and technology park. TechTown was established in 2000 by Wayne State University, General Motors, and the Henry Ford Health System with focus on emerging high-technology industries including advanced engineering, life sciences and alternative energy.

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TiE Midwest Co-Hosting 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, March 24

Entrepreneurs from the Midwest U.S. with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are welcome to pitch their businesses at or attend the next FREE online strategy roundtable, co-hosted with TiE Midwest, on Thursday, March 24, 2011, starting at: 10 a.m. CDT/8 a.m. PDT//8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here.

March 17 Roundtable Poll Winner

Adrian Montero’s FinqIt 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.

Business Incubator Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center, Midland, Michigan (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ken: So, our client, Advanced Battery Concepts, created a revolutionary technology, lead acid batteries that have a longer life cycle, weigh half as much, and cost less to produce. We have lead acid batteries all over the world. China would like to have lots of electric scooters.

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1M/1M: Online Education Module Of The Curriculum Is Ready

Readers, we have just released the online education module of the 1M/1M premium curriculum. In it, you will find a synthesis of the various trends and opportunities that I see at this point, along with case studies and video lectures. The opportunity is clearly huge in multiple dimensions, and I am convinced that many businesses can

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Become The CEO Of Your Own Destiny: LiveOps CEO And Former eBay COO Maynard Webb, Santa Clara, California (Part 1)

Maynard Webb is the chairman and CEO of LiveOps, which delivers an on-demand contact center platform as well as call center outsourcing services. Prior to LiveOps he was the Chief Operating Officer of eBay where he directed engineering and technology operations, product development, customer support, trust and safety, global billing, human resources, and legal functions.

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1M/1M: Healthcare IT Module Of The Curriculum Is Ready

Readers, we have just released the Healthcare IT module of the 1M/1M premium curriculum. In it, you will find a synthesis of the various trends and opportunities that I see at this point, along with case studies and video lectures. The opportunity is clearly huge in multiple dimensions, and I am convinced that many businesses can

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Roundtable Recap: March 17 – Spotlight On Latin And Central America

For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Latin and Central America. One of the things I have enjoyed tremendously about 1M/1M is its distinctly international nature. Over the years, we’ve had entrepreneurs from all over the world attend and pitch, and I’m delighted to see that we’re propagating

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