Roundtable Recap: July 28 – Investors And Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation

This week, I’ve had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written

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July 28 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 11)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: And we are building – now I am putting my computer scientist hat on and we are designing scalable distributed systems. So, we have One Million by One Million entrepreneurs from all over the world. This is a completely virtual program that we envision as

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The Next European Renaissance (Part 3)

Today, Europe is in trouble economically. Chronic debt crises, stagnating GDPs, staggering unemployment – all point to a bleak future. The future belongs to the Chinese, the Indians, and the Latin Americans. But does it, really? Isn’t there an innate intelligence and resilience in the European way of life?

Child Entrepreneur David Koretz, Now CEO of Mykonos Software (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What did you charge Bertelsmann for that deal and what does your product cost today? David Koretz: We charged them very little because we really wanted the reference. Our product is an enterprise product. We start at 25 thousand dollars and it can range up to 150,000 dollars. Large organizations may have multiple

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How Not To Finance Your Company: TalkPoint CEO Nick Balletta (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Nick is CEO of TalkPoint and a pioneer in the fields of unified communications and interactive webcasting. Nick launched his first company, Voyager Data Networks, in 1996 and sold it two years later. Prior he was the founder of NextVenue, a joint venture among Microsoft, NBC,

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