Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 3)

Sramana: Who were the early adopters of 99Designs? Matt Mickiewicz: The earliest adopters were Silicon Valley and New York startups. In the first couple of years in the business we did not do any marketing. We relied on press, media attention and word of mouth. Sramana: How did you get press? That can be very

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We are actually also running a Thought Leaders in Big Data series, which is a very successful series. The big data and cloud stories are interlaced stories. John Michelsen: Exactly. You just said better what I was trying to say. You aren’t going to think about big data as “OK, let’s go chop

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 2)

Sramana: You started that website while you were in high school. What happened after you graduated? Matt Mickiewicz: The business went really well up until the dot-com crash. All of our advertisers went bankrupt, which make me scramble to find an alternative business model. I turned to book publishing. I published over 70 books in

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck

Entrepreneurs looking to launch their startups are often faced with myriad difficult decisions, chief among them being the question of seed financing. If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “How can I fund this?” or “Can I fund this on my own, while I’m still holding my current job?” the answer is yes—you absolutely can.

Roundtable Recap: April 18 – From Singapore To Israel

Today’s roundtable spanned entrepreneurs from Singapore to Israel, with India in between. Storyzer First up, today, KimSia Sim and Kai from Singapore pitched Storyzer, an e-publishing platform for graphic novels. Kai, a graphic artist himself, has lived the challenge of being a creative professional trying to publish and promote his work in the cumbersome world

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170th Roundtable Recording On April 18, 2013

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SAP Startup Focus – 1M/1M Scholarships

Entrepreneurs developing products and services on the SAP HANA platform are reminded to submit their completed applications soon. Through this application process, twelve scholarships to One Million by One Million (1M/1M) – valued at $1000 for the annual membership fee – will be awarded by SAP to provide extensive incubation support to entrepreneurs developing products

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 1)

John Michelsen is the chief technology officer of CA Technologies. John studied at Trinity University and is considered one of the great innovators in business IT, with over 12 patents awarded to him. In this interview John talks about trends in the business IT world and how it has developed over the years. Furthermore, he

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