Entrepreneur: How Well Can You Defend Your Business Idea?

By guest author Irina Patterson We see it over and over. Entrepreneurs pitch to Sramana at the 1M/1M Weekly Roundtables. Sramana punches a few holes in their businesses. Entrepreneurs fall apart. Why?

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Dec. 1st: 106th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 106th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 1, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

A 1M/1M Thanksgiving

ifood.tv, last featured on the blog on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar, returns to offer readers recipes, how-to videos gathered from around the Internet, and tips for a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. Later this week, they’ll return with more holiday recipes to try. But first, click on the full article for twists on Thanksgiving favorites.

Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 7)

Sramana: Essentially Plimus offers a complete solution for smaller businesses, and in return small companies are going to pay a slightly higher transaction rate. Is that correct? Hagai Tal: Yes. When they become a larger company, they can then evaluate if they are able to accomplish all of the same things we do more efficiently.

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Capitalism Needs An Overhaul

America is feeling pessimistic these days about its dwindling economic prospects. Some among the population are positively angry. The Occupy Wall Street movement is emblematic of a dissatisfied nation that for lack of a deeper understanding of the system, has been protesting, seemingly, against all of capitalism. Contrast this with another event and the nation’s—or

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Is Capitalism The Right Answer for Emerging Markets?

Given our extensive presence in emerging markets and the implosion of Western-style free market capitalism, the following question is becoming relevant and important: Is capitalism the right answer for emerging markets? I would like to open up the topic for discussion. Please use my recent piece Restructuring Capitalism as context, and share your thoughts on where

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Innovating in Payment Technology: Plimus CEO Hagai Tal (Part 6)

Sramana: Are you saying that you want to build a platform for larger enterprise customers on which they can develop their own API extensions? Hagai Tal: Yes, we want to build a platform like Salesforce where people can build what they need. That is the main target for us. At the same time, we still

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