Roundtable Recap: July 31 – Does Your Idea Scale?

Today’s roundtable, as usual, had a diverse international attendance. TelepathEye First up, Greg Maltz from Castro Valley, California, pitched TelepathEye, a technology for controlling Glass apps with eye movements. Greg wants to license the technology to wearable glass vendors like Google and other smaller players. The opportunity needs validation and business model analysis. Well Beyond

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Peter Hirst, Executive Director of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The simple thing is if you give things for free, people just click on it and then move on. If they pay for it, there’s a lot more commitment. Peter Hirst: Low completion rate isn’t necessarily something that should be critical in relation to MOOCs, exactly because of what you said. People can

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Bootstrapping a Fun Social Business: Paint Nite CEO Dan Hermann (Part 2)

Dan Hermann: We attended a friend’s birthday party, which was at this painting studio where they were serving beer and wine. Both he and I recognized very quickly that there was a lot of power to the concept, which had a lot of visual implications. We could tell that it was just very social media

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224th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 224th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 31, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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Today’s 224th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 31, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Disrupting Cloud-Based Recruiting: SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck (Part 2)

Sramana: Why did you move to the Czech Republic? Jerome Ternynck: I went there for the market opportunities. France didn’t, and still doesn’t, offer good opportunities for entrepreneurs. There is not much growth there. I went to a market and positioned myself in a market where I can show growth and opportunity.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Peter Hirst, Executive Director of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Online learning is something that you can do at your own time in a very flexible way. That flexibility goes away with that. You’re saying that there’s more benefit in terms of engagement and learning, but there is that other benefit of flexibility that gets taken away from that setup. Peter Hirst:

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Bootstrapping a Fun Social Business: Paint Nite CEO Dan Hermann (Part 1)

Social media is great, but human beings also love to socialize in person. Paint Nite is thriving by tapping into the desire human beings have to ‘hang out’ and do creative things. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with telling our audience a little bit about your personal background. Where were you born and raised? What kind

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