December 5 – Next 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 197th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 5, 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 Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Thought Leaders in Outsourcing: Interview with John Meyer, CEO of Arise Virtual Solutions (Part 1)

John Meyer is the CEO of Arise Virtual Solutions, a leading company in the outsourcing/crowdsourcing industry. Arise connects individuals and companies with other companies to provide services such as customer service, sales, or technical service. John has previously served as CEO for Acxiom and as president of the Global Services group of Alcatel-Lucent, and he

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The Past, Present, and Future of Robotics: Interview with Rich Mahoney, Director of Robotics Engineering at SRI (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Your point is well taken. From what I know from bringing products to market, anything that requires too much work on the part of the consumer basically fails. As long as the products that come onto the market have self-learning capabilities, that would be fine. Rich Mahoney: At the end of the day,

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The Past, Present, and Future of Robotics: Interview with Rich Mahoney, Director of Robotics Engineering at SRI (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I don’t see this happening in the food preparation domain as much as I see it happening in cleaning services. Lawn mowing is a good example, because it is a repetitive and physically exerting function. Those are good application areas. If I were thinking about consumer applications, what other applications would I be

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2013: Sapience Analytics, Pune, India

Sapience Analytics is the creator of an enterprise-class solution designed to increase productivity and create “automated work visibility” across the enterprise hierarchy – with no added managerial responsibility. Within two years of its release, Sapience has crossed $1 million in annual revenue and has scaled to more than 50 installations and 50,000 users. Sapience has

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The Past, Present, and Future of Robotics: Interview with Rich Mahoney, Director of Robotics Engineering at SRI (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I think the way to think about it is from different societies, where there is a lot more use of services and a lot more domestic help. In American society that help is there, but probably in the more affluent class of society and not as penetrated into the broad mass of society.

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Bootstrapping to $12M+, Getting Ready to Raise Money: MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson (Part 7)

Sramana: With $12 million, in revenue you can raise money anywhere you want. When a company has substantial revenues, they do not need to move to Silicon Valley to fund raise. Have you considered where you are going to look at raising money? Aaron Fulkerson: Making the decision to move to Silicon Valley or not

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