Roundtable Recap: October 10 – Try To Minimize Capital Risk

Today’s roundtable had its usual share of entrepreneurs dreaming about raising capital on concepts without validation. Sometimes, I wonder, when, if ever, we’re going to get this epidemic under control! MoYoTv First up, Dollie Darko, from Greenwich, CT, pitched MoYoTv – a television network that develops its own high quality programming for the millennial generation.

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2013: Freshdesk, Chennai, India

Freshdesk is a SaaS company that provides customer support software across multiple communication channels. The software combines a back-end helpdesk system used in ticketing and knowledge management with an online social customer portal on the front end. Within two years of its launch as a cost-effective alternative, in 2013 Freshdesk has crossed $1 million in

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What have you had to do technically to service this use case? Shan Connolly: In many cases, the enterprise Hadoop platform acts as the landing ground for all those different sources of data. In many cases, if the information is already in existing systems that are powering the business, those systems are not

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191st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

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191st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 191st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 4)

Sramana: Bella, it sounds like your book release schedule is almost like soap opera seasons. Bella Andre: In a way it is. My books don’t have cliffhangers, but I would call them family sagas. That is a pretty good description of what I did with the Sullivans. My readers know there are eight siblings, so

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to distinguish between what is free and what is paid in the product part, can you give some examples of capabilities that are paid? Shaun Connolly: Whether we are doing operational tooling, configuration, provisioning and management, those capabilities manifest in an open source project called Apache Ambari, which is an

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 3)

Sramana: Hugh, let’s go over your background. What is your story? Hugh Howey  I had one book out with a small publisher and learned about self-publishing by watching a small press publish my book. They were using print-on-demand technology to create space and they were uploading to e-book distributors like KDP. The reason that Jasinda

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