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

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 3rd 2014

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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227th Roundtable Recording On August 28, 2014

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 3rd 2014

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Bootstrapping a Language Product Company Using Services from London, Then Taking it Public and Scaling It to $450M: SDL CEO Mark Lancaster (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 3rd 2014

Very few technology companies have been built from the UK. ARM and Autonomy come to mind. Here’s the story of a lesser-known company called SDL. Sramana: Mark, let’s start with the beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? What is the backstory of the SDL story? Mark Lancaster: I was born and raised

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Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Scott Hartsman, CEO of Trion Worlds (Part 3)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2014

Sramana Mitra: Rift started with a certain storyline. You were basically allowing people to subscribe to the game and play however long and in whatever way they wanted. When you introduced free-to-play, obviously that storyline had to accommodate that model of commerce in the game. Can you talk about that in concrete terms? Scott Hartsman:

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New Book – From eCommerce to Web 3.0

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2014

Excerpt from my new book, From eCommerce To Web 3.0: How To Leverage The Evolution Of The Internet. Back in 2007, even before the iPhone was launched, giving us a powerful computer in our pockets or handbags, I started outlining a vision for Web 3.0. There are numerous definitions of Web 3.0 floating around. Tim

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Bootstrapping a Cloud Startup with Services on Force.com from London: Alex Fuller, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudSense (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 2nd 2014

Alex Fuller: External investment has allowed us to increase our Sales & Marketing investment to reach more companies. Our R&D investment has allowed us to create more vertical specific features that further differentiate us from the competition. We have also established a US presence with people on the ground in a number of locations headquartered in

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Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Scott Hartsman, CEO of Trion Worlds (Part 2)

Posted on Monday, Sep 1st 2014

Sramana Mitra: I don’t know if you saw this Economic Developer Survey that came out about gaming. Mobile apps in general are large portions of games – somewhere around 50% both on Android and iOS, but the developers make $500 a month or less. Scott Hartsman: That’s exactly right. I saw a report last week

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Sep 1st 2014

Sramana Mitra: Anything else that you want to conclude with? John Miller: The thing that I’d share with you is I have a true passion for this. I came out of retirement to join HOL to focus on this STEM issue. K-12 initiatives are two generations away. Dr. Bared of Intel was quoted as saying

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