Business Incubator Series: Jerry Creighton, Enterprise Development Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jerry: What our success is in, it’s the tech development side; it’s helping the economy grow; it’s creating jobs; it’s attracting businesses and investors to New Jersey, and building a high-tech, world-class workforce of people who want to stay in the state. Those are my mission objectives

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Roundtable Recap: April 16 – 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network Incubator

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post. I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. After the event, I received an e-mail from

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Making Millions Out Of Artificial Intelligence: Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute (Part 7)

Sramana: Do you have any beta customers for your marketing solution? Akli Adjaoute: We have not yet entered beta testing for our marketing product, but our marketing team is being assembled and we are putting together an initial list of potential beta customers. We know we also want to go into identity fraud.

Openings To Pitch At Tomorrow’s Roundtable

If you know an entrepreneur who could benefit from pitching and discussing their business with Sramana Mitra, please let them know I have a few last minute openings to pitch during tomorrow’s roundtable. Instructions for pulling together a few simple slides can be found here. Anyone interested can contact me at maureen@sramanamitra.com. Thanks!

Business Incubator Series: Ross Sanders, Bizdom U – Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Ross: [Since LLG is an online training platform for a pre-licensing exam for the insurance sales force], we can grow the company in Detroit, Michigan, but we can service the entire country and we don’t have to be in those different states in order to sell our

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Making Millions Out Of Artificial Intelligence: Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute (Part 6)

Sramana: Brighterion today has a fraud detection product that has done well among banks. You have started working with [the Department of ] Homeland Security and healthcare fraud providers. Where do you take Brighterion from here? Akli Adjaoute: We have proved the fraud detection capability to the market. We have proven real-time artificial intelligence to

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India Trip: Chennai, Mumbai, Pune

I have been traveling in India over the last week, and have done whole day events including live 1M/1M roundtables in Chennai, Mumbai, and Pune. It’s been really interesting to connect with so many entrepreneurs, as well as leaders of the entrepreneurship eco-system in these cities – my hosts. A few thoughts: Chennai was my

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Business Incubator Series: Ross Sanders, Bizdom U – Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi I am talking to Ross Sanders, executive director of Bizdom U, which is a not-for-profit business accelerator, that is in some ways similar to Y Combinator and yet different in others. The founder of Bizdom U is Dan Gilbert, a serial entrepreneur, chairman and founder of Quicken

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