Niche E-Commerce to $5M: Dan Dillon, CEO of CleanItSupply.com (Part 6)

Sramana: Who was your third hire? Dan Dillon: Someone to manage content. We realized how important search engine optimization was and how dirty the content was that we received from suppliers. The janitorial supply business is very old. We had to convert the information from fliers and info sheets that manufacturers had into content that

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Thursday, March 7 – 164th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 164th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 7, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Women Entrepreneurs: May Be, Baby!

Over the years, I have spoken with many women entrepreneurs who had various questions around balance and flexibility. The most critical question comes up when these entrepreneurs face the have a child vs. start a company question. One of the best conversations I ever had on the subject was with Sara Sutton Fell, founder of

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1M/1M Finds New Friends At The SAP Startup Focus

It is with great pleasure that we welcome SAP Startup Focus entrepreneurs to the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) program. This new partnership will offer extensive incubation support to entrepreneurs developing products and services on the SAP HANA platform. We are launching this effort by inviting a first set of entrepreneurs working with HANA through the SAP Startup Focus

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How the President Used the Cloud to Beat Romney (Part 2)

Gathering Clouds: Obviously, the groundswell during the last campaign was a very palpable cultural moment, and a lot of the technologies that you were using this time around weren’t as widely available last time. How did these technologies change? What was ultimately the benefit for you guys?

Niche E-Commerce to $5M: Dan Dillon, CEO of CleanItSupply.com (Part 5)

Sramana: Given your business model, where you do not have to deal with the logistics of the shipments, what kind of margin do you do? Dan Dillon: We have a floor of between 8 and 9 margin points when marketing via comparison shopping engines. If people are coming in organically or directly due to our

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How the President Used the Cloud to Beat Romney (Part 1)

Cloud Player: Interview with Obama for America’s Engineering Director, Dylan Richard: How the President Used the Cloud to Beat Romney, by Gathering Clouds [Editor’s note: We hope you enjoy this special guest interview from Gathering Clouds.] In honor of President Obama’s second inauguration, we had the great pleasure to sit down for an extended conversation

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Catching Up On Readings: Entrepreneur’s Reinvention 2013

Regular blog readers know that we are big supporters of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley, and within the United States we have highlighted startups in places such as Michigan, Denver, and south Florida. Now go on a virtual tour with Entrepreneur magazine as it assesses the startup landscape five years after the financial crisis. We start

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