Future of the Exit, Post CrowdFunding

In April 2013, equity CrowdFunding is not yet legal in America. In the upcoming years, it will become so. This posts reflects on changes we may anticipate once this change occurs.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Could we talk about a few more pain points? Bob Tennant: We do something called e-discovery, where in the process of responding to a government regulatory request or litigation, you are obligated to provide all pertinent information to that request. To do that, you need to find and identify, then analyze, what information

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 7)

Sramana: What kind of numbers do you have? How many engineers apply to be on your platform? Matt Mickiewicz: We typically have 2,000 to 3,000 engineers apply every month. Of those, we accept the best 150 or so engineers. We take care of the upfront vetting. We look at their intent to switch jobs as

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So you built a platform and you let the customers figure out what use case they want to apply it to? Bob Tennant: No. Our experience in the past has been that it is very difficult to sell a platform. It is very hard to do if you are carrying a big company’s

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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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