Thursday, May 3: Opportunity For Entrepreneurs to Pitch at 125th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 125th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. 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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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Will Overstreet, CEO of Voices Heard Media (Part 1)

“Voices Heard Media released new data results demonstrating that its suite of social engagement applications (the EventBox) has increased unique visitors to clients’ sites by as much as 49%. The increased traffic was the result of social sharing of events, such as contests, polls and Q&As, to social media sites by participating users. In sharing

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: Elasticity, St. Louis, Missouri

Anyone who wants to have a successful marketing campaign for his business will have social media marketing among the many tools in his marketing tool kit. While it’s possible for a company to achieve success without social media and other forms of online marketing, why would anyone want to ignore such powerful resources? Elasticity is

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Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Britain

You have probably read in the press that UK is going into a double-dip recession. Well, to stimulate entrepreneurship in the UK, 1M/1M is partnering with A&N Media, part of DMGT, Britain’s largest media group. As part of this effort, A&N Media will be awarding a series of 1M/1M scholarships to entrepreneurs in Britain. A&N

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Navigating the Microsoft Ecosystem to Build a 12 Million Dollar Company: Brian Knight, CEO of Pragmatic Works (Part 5)

Sramana: How did you build your company from an organizational standpoint during that timeframe? Brian Knight: We started with commission-only sales people. We are no longer that way, but it did serve its purpose. We aligned our five commission only sales people into the same five regions that Microsoft had for their sales force. At the

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Catching Up On Readings: Entrepreneurs in Peril

Entrepreneurs have a lot to think about. They need to hire the right team of people.  They need customer validation. Maybe they need capital. Whatever challenges face them, entrepreneurs should do everything they can to stay calm, think things through and avoid freaking out. If you’re wondering what kinds of things make entrepreneurs freak out, take

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Navigating the Microsoft Ecosystem to Build a 12 Million Dollar Company: Brian Knight, CEO of Pragmatic Works (Part 4)

Sramana: How were you finding your consulting opportunities? Brian Knight: In the early days I found a lot of customers via Microsoft. They had a barrier that their sales people could not get past, which was that they did not provide a way to upgrade from their old SQL Server to their new one. We

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Navigating the Microsoft Ecosystem to Build a 12 Million Dollar Company: Brian Knight, CEO of Pragmatic Works (Part 3)

Sramana: Once you started Pragmatic Works who were your first customers? Brian Knight: I went after a few customers around town. I provided consulting services just to build the capital in the account. I would sell a consulting job for a certain price and take 30% of that revenue and re-invest it into the company.

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