Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Troy: We have a rigorous curriculum. We make a huge degree of use of the mentors. We do have some other services around, for example, as I mentioned, pro bono legal for their business conversion [to the right corporate structure].

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK, let’s look closer at encryption in the cloud. Would you help me understand what kind of data are you talking about, with some use cases as examples? Chris Burchett: Yes. One example might be that I want to run some of the servers, and

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Bootstrapping To $1 Million, Then Growing to $40 Million: iContact CEO Ryan Allis: Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Part 2)

Sramana: What was going on in your life parallel to your young entrepreneur activities? Ryan Allis: I was a normal school kid living in Florida. I went to middle school and high school, and I worked when I could on the side. Throughout high school I did 40 or 50 websites and I started a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About Credant Technologies Credant Technologies’ Mobile Guardian solutions are designed to protect endpoint data wherever it resides, helping to ensure endpoint data security and demonstrate compliance while avoiding the costs and complexities of full disk solutions. Named in 2007 and 2008 as the fastest-growing privately held security

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, May 12

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing their startup ventures are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable, on Thursday, May 12, 2011, starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us!

May 5 Roundtable Poll Winner

Sanjeev Arora’s Tabillo 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 listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Bootstrapping To $1 Million, Then Growing to $40 Million: iContact CEO Ryan Allis: Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ryan is the co-founder and CEO of iContact, a provider of e-mail marketing software.. iContact currently has 300 employees, 700,000 users, and $50 million in annual revenues. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11 in 1995. He is an active

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Roundtable Recap: May 5 – Ownership Matters

Before I write the recap of today’s roundtable, I want to share with you a couple of thoughts that have been playing in my head, and I have given at least four talks on this topic over the past 30 days. One of them is: Ownership matters. A second is: You will get rejected by

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