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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: EE Technologies, Reno, Nev

Posted on Monday, Mar 26th 2012

Most people don’t care much about where the dash lighting, door lighting and seat belt sensors in their cars are manufactured. They only care that these things work properly. When people cross the street every day, they don’t worry about how the crosswalk signals were made. Again, they only care that these things work properly.

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Mar 26th 2012

Sramana: How did you find the animator who has done your commercials? Sean Broihier: l lived in New York for a couple of years. I know a few people who run Internet-related businesses in New York. He did some animation work for them, and I saw it and loved it. I reached out to him

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Catching Up On Readings: Sramana In Bangalore

Posted on Sunday, Mar 25th 2012

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, Sramana Mitra will be participating in several events for entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India. In the afternoon, Citrix will be hosting three roundtable sessions where 15 entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to Sramana for immediate feedback and guidance. In the evening, OpenCoffeeClub Bangalore will be hosting a

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 25th 2012

Sramana: In 2009 you did $1 million in revenue. How have you ramped since then? Sean Broihier: We crossed $5 million in revenue just two years later. Sramana: How have you built the business from a team perspective? How many employees do you have, and what functions do they serve? Sean Broihier: The entire company

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The Future of Software Development Is Here. Are You Ready Yet?

Posted on Saturday, Mar 24th 2012

By guest author Mridula Velagapudi As I wrote in a piece earlier, as a part of technology evolution, software development has evolved and matured a lot, and the present trends show that there is going to be a paradigm shift in the developers’ roles. The question is: are you ready yet? With Web 3.0, the exponential

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 24th 2012

Sramana: You rely on search engine optimization to provide a supply of customers through organic search. You rely on word of mouth to entice artists and photographers to sell their work through your site. Sean Broihier: I designed the entire site to be fully automated. It gives artists the sales and marketing tools they need

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Bangalore Entrepreneurs: April 3 Events With Sramana Mitra

Posted on Friday, Mar 23rd 2012

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, Sramana Mitra will be participating in several events for entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India. In the afternoon, Citrix will be hosting three roundtable sessions where 15 entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to Sramana for immediate feedback and guidance. In the evening, OpenCoffeeClub Bangalore will be hosting a

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Mar 23rd 2012

Sramana: What is the business model behind FineArtAmerica? Sean Broihier: The business model is to create a marketplace of buyers and sellers. We allow artist and photographers to upload their images to our site. We then offer them for sale as framed prints, stretched canvases, acrylic prints, greeting cards, and so on. We have a

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