The Myth About Seed Funding

By guest author Irina Patterson We, at 1M/1M, have invested significant resources to dispel the myth about seed funding. We engaged with and interviewed some very successful entrepreneurs who bootstrapped multimillion dollar businesses without outside funding. Here are just a few examples: Zoho [CEO Sridhar Vembu], RightNow [CEO Greg Gianforte], eClinicalWorks [CEO Girish Navani] ClubPlanet

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Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 4)

Sramana: What were some of the major lessons learned between the time you left Axon Group and joined Eliza? Alexandra Drane: I left CDI to start Axon which was a value capital company. One of the startups with Axon was NewMed which was a medical device company. At each company I have been involved with

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MBA vs. 1M/1M, Let’s Do The Math

By guest author Irina Patterson I recently read a book by Philip Delves Broughton called Ahead of the Curve – Two Years at Harvard Business School. The book is about Philip’s firsthand experience at HBS during 2004-2006. The book is so sarcastic that, reportedly, it made Harvard very unhappy. I enjoyed the book, but it

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Partner Event: TechSparks 2011 In Bangalore On August 19

YourStory.in and Intel invite you to be a part of TechSparks™ 2011 – India’s biggest discovery platform for product technology startups. Witness the pitches by the 20 most innovative technology companies being built out of India, all vying to be the top 5 TechSparks™ for 2011. The Grand Finale will be held on Friday, August

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Bootstrapping A Healthcare IT Startup To 50 Million: Eliza Corporation President Alexandra Drane (Part 3)

Sramana: When you left Axon Group, what company did you create and what was the thesis behind that company? Alexandra Drane: We founded Tesseract with the idea that we would use Web-enabled functionality to help with injury tracking. During our consulting work we had noticed that many times when folks come in to do technology

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San Francisco Examiner Interview With Sramana Mitra

You can read the San Francisco Examiner’s recent article, “Dot-com veteran Sramana Mitra on the future of technology in India,” here.

August 25: FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 25, 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. Please let your friends know, all are welcome!

How Do You Scale Mentoring?

By guest author Irina Patterson To date, on this blog, we have interviewed more than 30 incubator managers and more than 40 angel investors, and all of them are looking for solutions to scalable and effective mentoring resources. Most mentors are active or retired entrepreneurs, senior executives, and incubator managers themselves. Most seek not only emotional satisfaction

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