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Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO, Terry Ryan (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Dec 18th 2014

Sramana Mitra: You’ve been in the market for five years. You have not raised any other funding after that $10 million seed round. Where are you now? Terry Ryan: We have definitely turned down funding. It’s a very interesting world in healthcare IT right now. Sramana Mitra: Yes, it’s a very interesting world. Terry Ryan:

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Posted on Thursday, Dec 18th 2014

Today’s 242nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, December 18, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Dec 18th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in the strategic story? Robert Reffkin: While searching for the most valuable products and services to this business, we surveyed our clients and asked them what they cared most about. They cared most about helping them answer questions like what’s the right price for a home and how do you

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2014

Warren Barkley: There is a district in Washington State who have way less money than most districts. They’ve a lot of kids who are in and out of school, but every kid has a laptop in its population of 20,000. The curriculum is online for pretty much everything that they want to learn in the K-8.

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Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO Terry Ryan (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2014

Sramana Mitra: That was what I was trying to extract. One of the things that is always very compelling is if you can solve a serious enterprise problem for people who have a lot of money and for whom you can end up saving a lot of money. That’s the reason why I took you

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Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2014

Sramana Mitra: From the time that you launched to getting to your first customers who were selling their properties on your platform, what was the time window? How long did it take you to get your first transaction? Robert Reffkin: The first transaction was in the first month. It was a rental. We had more

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Startup Accelerator Applying Multisided Crowdsourcing

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2014

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Identifying and attracting potential startup firms has so far been a game of chance, with far too much money chasing far too few opportunities. Those most experienced at this game are leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms (VC firms). Studies at Harvard University show that entrepreneurs receiving financing from VC

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Special 25% Discount For IBM SmartCamp Entrepreneurs In India For The 1M/1M Mentoring Program

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16th 2014

In an effort to continue supporting the energy and enthusiasm of entrepreneurs involved with SmartCamp in India, IBM is partnering with the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator to help entrepreneurs get high quality mentoring and other kinds of support. As a follow-up to SmartCamp, IBM is offering a 25% discount to

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