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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142nd Roundtable Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 142nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 13, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Click here to join.

142nd Roundtable Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s FREE online 142nd 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 13, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Playing with Love to $10M: SeekingArrangement Founder Brandon Wade (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Brandon Wade is the founder of SeekingArrangement.com, a dating website for successful men and women who want to meet them. Prior to founding SeekingArrangement, he worked for Microsoft, GE Power Systems, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is a graduate of MIT, where he earned both his

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