Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 3)

John Miller: One of the challenges they have coming back into education is the whole on boarding process and preparing the employee to come back in. There’re a number of demands that really come into play here. When you start to think about regaining your study skills and the ability to do time management with the

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September 4 – 228th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 228th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 4, 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

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Gamification-Based Decision-Making in Breakthrough Innovation

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Quickly separating promising design concepts from the mediocre saves time and money and mediates destructive political gamesmanship. However, the challenge is how to recognize lucrative breakthrough innovations in their infancy, when knowledge and understanding is limited. Prediction-markets and gamification provide a novel solution for this dilemma.

Bootstrapping a Cloud Startup with Services on Force.com from London: Alex Fuller, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudSense (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you go about building your team in Croatia? Alex Fuller: We flew out there and did some relatively simple job advertising. We set up an assessment center where we invited people to come and spend a couple of days with us. We put them through a training course because the Force.com platform

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Roundtable Recap: August 28 – Interesting Businesses Amidst End Of Summer Blues

Today’s roundtable, the last of this summer, had a huge registration list to pitch. Those who were unable to get a slot, Maureen is working to ensure that you are scheduled for one of the upcoming sessions. Traveller’s Loose Change First up, Sanjeev Sharma from Danville, California, pitched Traveller’s Loose Change, a service to convert

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Building A Profitable, Steady Growth Subscription Business: Expensify CEO David Barrett (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of customers did you gain traction with? David Barrett: We did a couple of things. Most of the important things we did were, frankly, just by accident. I would say that the genius of Expensify is not that we have some great insight into the market, rather we knew we didn’t

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Then what do you do to fill those gaps? Do you develop content modules to be delivered over the Internet around those skill gap areas? John Miller: What we are in the process of doing with our clients is identifying the gaps and then, building a goal alignment. We go through a very

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227th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 227th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 28, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.