Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you feel about bootstrapping of a business? John: Personally, I think you should bootstrap for as long as you possibly can, as long as it doesn’t hinder your growth opportunities.

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June 23 Roundtable Poll Winner

Harshil Parikh’s CareerDhaba 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.

June 30: Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, June 30, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: What about the higher-end cutting edge collaboration functionalities? Let me go to the absolute other extreme, desktop tele-presence. How far are we from desktop tele-presence in the cloud? Frank: I don’t think we are that far, because a lot of the pieces are

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Building A Billion-Dollar Solar Company: Canadian Solar CEO Shawn Qu (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dr. Shawn (Xiaohua) Qu is the founder, chairman, president and CEO of Canadian Solar. Prior to founding Canadian Solar in 2001, he worked at Matrix and Photowatt International as a research scientist, and director of silicon procurement, director of solar products, strategic planning and business development,

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Roundtable Recap: June 23 – New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far, and based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. It is a quick self-assessment that you can apply to calibrate where you are in your business-building process. We have also provided

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June 23 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Business Incubator Series: John Richards, BoomStartup, Provo, Utah (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: So, Bazari contacted the top 15 microfinance institutions in India and met with 13 of the 15 to offer them their online loan reporting platform. [Bazari offers SMS interface to manage reporting and tracking of lending and collection of the micro-borrowers accounts.]