Thursday, June 12 – 219th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 219th FREE online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 12, 2014, 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 of

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2014: Happy Grasshopper, Safety Harbor, Florida

Happy Grasshopper is an email marketing company that focuses on providing fun, engaging content to help salespeople and small businesses build and nurture their relationships with leads and past customers. Founded in October 2010 by serial and parallel entrepreneur Dan Stewart, Happy Grasshopper is growing rapidly as it maintains its distinction as a company that

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Comment-Selling on Facebook: Smocked Auctions Founders Amy Laws and Nicole Brewer (Part 6)

Sramana: So now in addition to your auctions, you are also offering traditional e-commerce on your website? Nicole Brewer: Yes. We still have our auctions as well. Sramana: What infrastructure do you use to complete your auctions? Is that still custom software? Nicole Brewer: We have a partner that we are using. We post a

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Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2014

This feature on Mashable looks at the latest innovations at the Apple Worldwide Developers conference this year including health-tracking and smart home initiatives, a slew of new features like third-party keyboards, and even a new programming language. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I’m not doing the research. Somebody who knows better than I do is curating or providing that content and the education that I need. Essentially at that point, it’s an online university of its own style. I think that’s what’s going to happen at each of the university levels as well as there

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Building a Fat Startup: Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta (Part 4)

Sunny Gupta: Then came the fund raising. Greylock and Madrona were my prime investors. I started talking to them as I was validating the idea in the summer of 2007. I think their perspective was, “We have a lot of faith in you. Great teams can take a bad idea and make it into a

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Comment-Selling on Facebook: Smocked Auctions Founders Amy Laws and Nicole Brewer (Part 5)

Sramana: What percentage of the business is girls clothing versus boys clothing? Nicole Brewer: About 70% to 30%. Girl moms definitely shop more than the boy moms. You can do a lot more with a girl. Sramana: When you decided to move to a more automated payment process, how did you manage that decision process?

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 6)

Sean Brown: My personal belief is that we are in the early days of what education content can do for entrepreneurs worldwide. I believe it is a bonanza – a green field – of opportunity to sit down and think about the education that they have received, what they think is valuable, the parts of

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