Capitalism 2.0: Tax Policy

In my formula for creating a thriving small-business system, governments do not need to do a whole lot. But they can do a few things that could add positive momentum to the process. So I’m making some tax policy recommendations that could really bring about meaningful “change.” There are four constituencies we need to take

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October 6: 100th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

For our 100th roundtable, several 1M/1M entrepreneurs from across the globe will share their entrepreneur journeys and provide an insider’s view of the 1M/1M program. Join us for this inspirational and informative FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 6, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What you are saying is the applications are going to go on to third-party cloud-based application vendors. The infrastructure is going to go to the data center companies and the public cloud vendors who deliver infrastructure as a service. Indu Kodukula: And in many cases, the application vendors will actually run on that infrastructure,

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CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 5)

Sramana: After you gained your first few small startup customers, how did you go about building the company? What were the big milestones? Lukas Biewald: There really was not a single moment where I suddenly realized that we would make it. There were a couple of things that added up for us. We had a

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Catching Up On Readings: Save the Date – 100th 1M/1M Roundtable October 6, 8 a.m. PST

What are entrepreneurs doing in 1M/1M today? They are using the program to first and foremost validate their ideas with customers. They are using the core 1M/1M curriculum to learn creative bootstrapping, techniques for laser-sharp positioning, capital efficient customer validation, and thorough, bottom-up market sizing that is rooted in validated business model and pricing model assumptions.

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Outsourcing: Matthew Heim, President of NineSigma (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you are working more in manufacturing or maybe the health care space? Matthew Heim: It’s virtually every manufacturing industry that practices open innovation. We work with all types of companies, but of late, the service industry has begun to open up to open innovation, financial services, insurance companies, and the like, and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust (Part 2)

David Rose: Based on that, we went out and began to approach business angel groups and networks and their parent associations and organizations. We created for them an entire infrastructure platform to handle the management of all their incoming deal flow, members, and membership of their investment management under the name AngelSoft. By working laboriously

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Taking the SharePoint example, why doesn’t Microsoft have a public cloud version of SharePoint for this class of customers? Indu Kodukula: I think if you look at the cloud broadly today, you absolutely have a version of SharePoint that runs on hyper-v, which is a Microsoft hypervisor, or you can run it on VMware. I think

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