Playing with Love to $10M: SeekingArrangement Founder Brandon Wade (Part 3)

Sramana: How long did it take you to get 4,000 users signed up to enable the launch of the site, and what were the demographics? Brandon Wade: It took me three weeks. At that point we had five women signing up for every single man. Sramana: So, you successfully turned the equation around from the

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October 4 – Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 143rd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 143rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 4, 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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TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition Postponed

Due to TradeKing’s involvement in a merger,  the TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition has been postponed until Spring 2013.  Interested entrepreneurs are welcome to apply to pitch now. We are especially interested in companies with the following types of financial businesses to pitch: -Online tools providers -Mobile tools providers -Platform SDKs -Data visualization tools You

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India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaS-y War

Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sales professionals much easier, and the platform soon gained traction as a handy tool for non-sales professionals as well. But Salesforce.com wasn’t—and still isn’t—affordable for everybody. Enter Zoho, a bootstrapped, India-based company that offers

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Playing with Love to $10M: SeekingArrangement Founder Brandon Wade (Part 2)

Sramana: Your hypothesis about the dating scene, and your solution to it, are definitely unique. Brandon Wade: It changed the equation, but at the same time it created controversy. A lot of people found the concept to be shallow or superficial. Controversy turned out to be very good for business. I certainly leverage controversy into

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Roundtable Recap: September 13 – Five 1M/1M Ambassadors Win Scholarships

During today’s roundtable, we started the session by celebrating five of our high performing ambassadors: Danielle Faber from Ontario, Canada; Erin Frank from Madison, Wisconsin; Javier Hernández Pérez from Madrid, Spain; Shilpa Kolte from Singapore, Malaysia; and Saikat Sengupta from Kolkata, India. These five have contributed particularly significantly to the program over the summer, and

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142nd Roundtable Recording On September 13

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 4)

Because Elizabeth had some exciting news to share with me during the course of our interview together regarding a recent acquisition that Citrix made, I decided to forgo my usual questions and focus instead on the company that was acquired and why Citrix thought it would be a good fit. Sramana Mitra: Elizabeth, what have

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