April 25 – 171st 1M/1M Roundtable: Free Online Mentoring For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 171st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 6)

Sramana: Tell me a bit more about the value proposition of DeveloperAuction. Matt Mickiewicz: We are a two-sided marketplace for hiring full-time engineering talent in Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. The basic premise is that we curate a pool of 150 engineers every single month who went to the top computer science schools and

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Celebrate Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs In Chennai

In the true spirit of giving back, a community of Chennai entrepreneurs has come together to award partial scholarships to the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator to three local startups. The scholarship recipients were selected after participating in TiE Chennai’s Start-up Super Saturday in early March, during which Sramana Mitra gave

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talent acquisition seems to be very active at the moment. Part of the reason is that there has been a lot of seed financing, but very few of those seed deals are getting to the point they state. A lot of those seed-financed companies have done some work, but their talented teams are

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1M/1M And Rackspace Announce Startup Challenge To Give Cloud Ventures A Lift

One Million by One Million (1M/1M) and Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company, today announced the Rackspace Cloud – 1M/1M Startup Challenge. This competition is designed to give a boost to entrepreneurs growing, developing, and launching cloud-based startups. Through an application process, five cloud startups will be judged finalists and they will present their businesses during

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 5)

Sramana: In three years you gained huge traction. How dramatically has your adoption curve changed? Matt Mickiewicz: We have been pushing international expansion heavily. We are seeing which markets work for us. The growth curve has continued very strongly. Our CEO has done a very good job. Sramana: Have you changed CEOs or have you

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Catching Up On Readings: Technology, Privacy, Law Enforcement

Today’s Washington Post addresses the difficulty in balancing safety, privacy and civil liberties, an issue that has again come to the fore following this week’s terrible event’s in Boston. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 1)

Bob Tennant is the chief executive officer at Recommind, a lead provider of e-discovery, enterprise search and automatic categorization software. Bob has degrees from the University of Victoria, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He has many years of experience in the IT business, having worked for Swiftsure Capital and Sun Microsystems,

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