1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: CapLinked, Manhattan Beach, California

My regular readers may be surprised to the see the subject of today’s 1M/1M Deal Radar. For the past three years, Deal Radar has been covering companies that have at least $1 million in annual revenue. It’s an important milestone that we take seriously. So why CapLinked, a pre-revenue company? Well, primarily because it’s a company

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Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 6)

Sramana: It sounds as though you had a good product completed before you launched. Daniel Putterman: We did, and it took a lot of hard work to do it. It was a leap of faith to launch it in the way we did. The clincher was that one of my lead investors is Foundry Group.

Business Incubator Series: Linda Darragh, ARCH New Business Incubator, University of Chicago – Illinois (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Linda: We are talking to impact investors from around the world to determine their criteria for investing. We are also looking at corporations in these countries to see what kind of products and services they would buy from entrepreneurial companies, to see if there is market as

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Business Incubator Series: Ross Sanders, Bizdom U – Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What are some of your successes stories? Ross: We already talked about the online training company [Launch Learning Group]. They have been doing it for only six months. They have raised outside funding. Campus Commandos is another good one. It does marketing and brand awareness on

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April 21 Roundtable Poll Winner

Douglas Villalobos’ GeoInvenio was chosen the best business of those presented at the last roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 5)

Sramana: Let’s go back to the “press went crazy” comment. The press does not go crazy, you make the press go crazy. Daniel Putterman: I would love to take credit, but all we said when we were at our booth was that nobody was too important or small for us to talk to. This was

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Business Incubator Series: Linda Darragh, ARCH New Business Incubator, University of Chicago – Illinois (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Linda: In our executive MBA program, students who want to build businesses can go through classes and get mentors and industry experts, and then they pick their ideas. They have their own competition that runs off on the side. Usually, the executive MBA students are a little

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Business Incubator Series: Ross Sanders, Bizdom U – Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Ross: Dave Bing was in here [at Bizdom U]. He is now the mayor of Detroit, but he is a very successful businessman, founder of Bing Steel [and a retired professional basketball player]. He came in and he talked to our entrepreneurs.