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Managing Risk: MetricStream Chairman Gunjan Sinha (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 9th 2012

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Gunjan Sinha is the chairman of MetricStream, an enterprise-wide GRC and quality solutions company with solutions aimed at global corporations. Over his career, Gunjan has spent more than 20 years in various entrepreneurial, board, and executive positions building innovative businesses. As an Internet pioneer, he was

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Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012

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Thursday, February 9: 115th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 115th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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The Effect of Facebook’s IPO

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012

By guest author Daniel Burrus Facebook’s IPO may well be the biggest and most hyped IPO ever … and for good reason. Many people would like to have bought Google or Apple when they first went public, but they didn’t. Now they’re kicking themselves for it. Unfortunately, you can’t go back and undo the past.

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The Promise Of E-Commerce

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012

Whichever way you look at it, the web has become the place for commerce. Online spending grew again over 2011, and the growth rate has outpaced that of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. While many chain retailers’ online sales are growing, their store sales are shrinking. For the longest time, entrepreneurs wanting to venture off on their

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Monetizing Premium Social App Ad Inventory and Scaling a Capital-Efficient Business: appssavvy CEO Chris Cunningham (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012

Sramana: What was your strategy for funding appssavvy? Chris Cunningham: Our strategy for raising money was basic. We started in early 2008 by bootstrapping. Both Michael and I put our American Express cards to the limit. We got buy-in to the business on our own dime. We were talking to friends and family as well

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Outsourcing: Rick Ferry, COO of C3 (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012

Sramana Mitra: The sectors that you talked about, are these sectors that you have major strategies to penetrate with onshore offerings? Rick Ferry: Yes, we do. We identified those fairly early on. We’re working with the companies that have accepted our services, thankfully, not only to bring them up here in the U.S. and do

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An Underused Tool For Job Recovery

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012

As the U.S. economy continues to hiccup, large-scale entrepreneurship is a badly needed remedy. In transitioning hundreds of thousands of people to self-employment and job creation through entrepreneurship, incubators look like an extremely helpful tool. But we need to produce more of the most effective incubators.

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