1M/1M Internships: Social Media

Students, as you are gearing up to apply for summer internships, here is an overview of what 1M/1M has in store this year. Please note, we will be giving preference to those who can start right away, and will be awarding 1M/1M scholarships to those interns who complete 100 hours of successful projects, as follows:

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 2)

SM: It sounds like Xerox is turning into an IT outsourcing company. KS: We have about $2 billion in revenue today from IT outsourcing already. We’re a $22 billion company, and about $2 billion of it is IT outsourcing. Now, in the market that we’re pursuing, the services business, historically, ACS and Xerox have pursued

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1M/1M Video: Girl Power In Silicon Valley

This comic strip raises the question of gender bias in Silicon Valley. Ironically, I AM a woman entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and in my experience, when I have been rejected by VCs, there was, often, good reason for it. Please view the comic strip, and weigh in with your thoughts. You can subscribe to the

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Bootstrapping A 100M+ E-Commerce Company: OpticsPlanet CEO Mark Levitin (Part 6)

Sramana: How many members do you have registered with DVOR.com? Mark Levitin: We do not disclose the exact number, but it is a six digit number. Sramana: Can you give some insight into the growth pattern of your business? It sounds like you started off being an e-commerce company, but over time you have evolved

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Thursday, Feb. 23: 117th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 117th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, February 23, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Stephens, Senior Vice-President of Cloud Services, Xerox (Part 1)

Xerox, originally known as the M.H. Kuhn Company and then the Haloid Company, has been around for more than 100 years. The first electrophotographic or xerographic copy was made in 1938 by inventor Chester Carlson, who patented the technology in 1942. In 1948, the name “Xerox” was trademarked. Since then, Xerox has permeated our culture

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Bootstrapping A 100M+ E-Commerce Company: OpticsPlanet CEO Mark Levitin (Part 5)

Sramana: You have made several references to your customer communities and lifestyles. Do you have an online community of users centered on a particular lifestyle which your experts moderate? For example, do you have a moderated hunters forum? Mark Levitin: Very much so. We have tens of thousands of posts on our forums. It is

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Catching Up On Readings: Keep Dreaming

All hard work and no play takes away the fun. To that end, the 1M/1M YouTube video channel has launched a comic strip series to help lighten your mood as we spread our message of bootstrapped entrepreneurship. The first is Keep Dreaming. For the rest of this week’s posts, click on the full article.