Thursday, Feb. 6 – 204th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 204th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 6, 2014, 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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From Berlin, Bringing Art Auctions Online: Auctionata CEO Alexander Zacke (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Auctionata is a professional online auction house. We’re about to encounter the online version of Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Read on … Sramana: Alex, let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from and where were you raised? What are the roots of your

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s understand Tidemark better. I think the best way for us to understand Tidemark would be through your customers. What is your target customer segment and then explain to us how you’re delivering value in Tidemark. Christian Gheorghe: One of the main challenges our customers are trying to solve is business transformation. Sometimes by

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Building Fat Startups: Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start Archivas? Andres Rodriguez: Towards the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002. Sramana Mitra: Was it the same team that you had in Abuzz? Andres Rodriguez: Some of the engineering team was the same, but a key ingredient was missing. This is happens often when you shift

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Catching Up On Readings: 10 Ideas To Change The World

CNN features 10 emerging ideas in technology and related fields that have huge potential to change the world: to make us healthier, to keep us safer on the highways, to protect the coastline during storms, to help our computers think for themselves, to literally reinvent the wheel. For this week’s blog posts, click on the

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Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 7)

Sramana: When did you start Influitive? Mark Organ: I left Singapore in early 2010 and I started Influitive after I returned to Toronto. I was able to get a great team together. The goal was to help companies grow faster by leveraging their fans and advocates. We think this is going to be a huge

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 2)

Christian Gheorghe: We’re seeing a transformation towards a much more volatile type of risk environment where there’s more global competition and where the user base is changing significantly to a prosumer market – where consumer experience is demanded at work. Furthermore, the mobile platform is starting to have a big impact on the enterprise space. With

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Building Fat Startups: Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were the mechanics of Abuzz? Was it a venture-funded company? Andres Rodriguez: Yes, it was a classic Series A venture funded company. It was funded by SoftBank, Brad Feld, Solstice Capital, and Flatiron Ventures, which is no longer around. I was very lucky to have good guys. They were especially good with

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