156th Roundtable ~ New Year Challenge Finals I ~ Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s New Year Challenge Finals I, the156th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs, is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 10, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Would you like to do a few more use cases? Dale Skeen: The second thing I wanted to talk about is a customer, who for competitive reasons doesn’t want to be named. It is a large telecommunications carrier that had sensor networks, which I mentioned before. Most mobile carriers would like to give

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Building a Made-in-India ERP Product Company: Ramco CEO Virender Aggarwal (Part 1)

Virender Aggarwal is the CEO of Ramco Systems, an enterprise software company focused on cloud computing products and services. Prior to his current role, he was the president and APAC region head for an IT services firm based in Singapore. In previous stints he was a key player in building the IT services and consulting

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1Mby1M Philosophy: Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later

This morning, I received an email from Aaron Skonnard, CEO of Pluralsight. Aaron, as you may recall, is the Utah entrepreneur we covered last year, who has bootstrapped his online education company to $12 million. He wanted to let me know that the company has just raised $27.5 million dollars in Series A financing. In

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Thursday, January 10: Entrepreneurs Pitch To Win At The 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 Finals I

The top 20 entrepreneurs have emerged as finalists for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge following the application and voting process. Join us as 10 of these promising entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to win scholarships to the 1M/1M online mentoring program on Thursday, January 10, 2013. You can register to attend here, it’s free. We hope

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s take some use cases and work through three or four customers whose cases you have permission to discuss. You may choose which best project your capabilities. The objective is to give our readers a feel of what is happening in your world of big data.

Leading Michigan’s Emergence as a Tech Startup Hub: Billhighway CEO Vince Thomas (Part 7)

Sramana: I like your desire to dive deep into a segmented market. That is a core philosophy of the 1M/1M incubator. It pays to focus on a narrow, precisely defined segment. We have case study after case study in which entrepreneurs have succeeded by doing that. Even though it is tried and true, I find

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you talk about applications of big data in business process optimization or business process management, what kinds of business processes are you choosing to get involved in? Dale Skeen: We call this [approach] operational intelligence. Some of the places where you might want to apply operational intelligence at the business process level

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