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Catching Up On Readings: IBM Looks To Africa

Posted on Sunday, Jul 31st 2011

IBM has had a presence in Africa for several decades, and as this week’s Tech Stocks points out, the company has been increasing its activity on that continent. Click on the full article to read more.

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Jul 31st 2011

Sramana: What was the process of building NextVenue? Was Goldman your first customer? Nick Balletta: CNBC was technically our first customer because we had a take back agreement with them. Morgan Stanley and Goldman were the first who clients we had.

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The Next European Renaissance (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 30th 2011

Developing ideas and insights that create major shifts and trends, solve humanity’s important problems, improve the quality of life for people around the world, lead to prosperity, and result in lasting achievements – this is our quest. The question we are exploring is whether Europe’s recognized enthusiasm for culture in its various forms – food,

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 30th 2011

Sramana: What was the story behind iBeam? Why were they so interested in acquiring your company? Nick Balletta: iBeam Broadcasting was involved with media entertainment. They had a similar concept as Akamai with an edge cache network except instead of using terrestrial distribution they used satellite distribution. When they write the book on Silicon Valley

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August 4: Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 29th 2011

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 4, 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. We hope to see you there!

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July 28 Roundtable Poll Winner

Posted on Friday, Jul 29th 2011

Kevin Fullerton’s PartingOut.com 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.

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The Next European Renaissance (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Jul 29th 2011

Remember, we started this discussion with the premise that the next renaissance will be at the confluence of technology and the arts. By “technology,” I am referring primarily to information technology and computing. As for other technologies, there are significant expertise and major industries such as automotive and aeronautics in Europe. German brands like Porsche,

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Jul 29th 2011

Sramana: What was your strategy to grow since you were undercapitalized and were not finding an abundance of investors?  Nick Balletta: A former colleague of mine at MFS Communications named Doug Hickey was the CEO of a Global Center which had a similar business model but they were on the west coast. Global Center was

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