Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: When did you launch the accelerator? Art: We launched last summer for the first time, and we are planning to run it again this summer. We will take probably three or four companies for a period of three months. Last summer we had six companies apply

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Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile – Santiago (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other interesting entrepreneurs in your program? Jean: There’s H2020 created by Erika Anderson, who is an alumna of Singularity University in Moffett Field, California. [They collect data using their unique mobile phone-based survey. H2020’s Water Poverty Initiative seeks to “improve public knowledge about

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Sales 2.0: Greg Brush, Vice President Of Sales And Customer Success, InsideView, San Francisco (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana Mitra: So, the enterprise cycle may be 146 days. During that time, all those people who have been identified as influencers in the decision-making process have been touched and sold to and demoed and their interactions logged to everything in Salesforce.com. At this point, you are

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 8)

Naval Ravikant: The combination of inexperienced investors with first-time entrepreneurs is not good. I am going to show you something else just to get my point across very clearly. Let me show you how many investors have applied to get in who haven’t even been processed. So, you see this page [on your computer], right?

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs In East Asia, Australia, New Zealand On Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time

MAD Incubator in Malaysia is co-hosting this roundtable and entrepreneurs from East Asia, Australia and New Zealand who are interested in discussing their startup ventures are encouraged to attend this FREE online strategy roundtable on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, starting at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT, which is Thursday, April 7, 10:30 a.m. Malaysia Time/8:00

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, CTO Of Sage Group Plc, Newcastle (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) returns with an interview with Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, CTO of Sage Group Plc. Before diving in, readers new to the series may want to read more about its purpose and goals, which are set forth in Cloud Computing Trends And Opportunities About

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1M/1M: How We Will Interface With AngelList

In our recently concluded interview series with AngelList cofounder Naval Ravikant, we discussed how AngelList and 1M/1M will be interfacing. Below, I am synthesizing the discussion. AngelList gets more than 7,000 deals a year at this point, and this is sure to increase over time. According to Naval, more than 95% of these deals are

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Building A Nearshore Outsourcing Company In Ann Arbor, Michigan: Systems In Motion CEO Neeraj Gupta (Part 4)

Sramana: Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the nearshore U.S. are all options that are coming up a lot now. What is the risk to India? Neeraj Gupta: India is the only place where software development works at scale. There has been a lot of investment in India, and I think it is here to stay.

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