September 3 – 274th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 274th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 3, 2015, 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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Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Jorn Lyseggen, CEO of Meltwater (Part 4)

Jorn Lyseggen: We started approaching this in a completely different way. We tried hiring our own sales people. We wanted to engage the clients in a much more strategic way. Instead of talking about our product, we wanted to engage the clients on their domain and try to understand their pain. Once we understood their

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Infidelity In The Digital Age

Ashley Madison, the web site that uses the tagline “Life is short, Have an Affair” is in the news for a hacking incident whereby the names and email ids of its 32 million registered users have now been exposed to the public. The whole episode brings to focus a simple reality: large numbers of people

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Roundtable Recap: August 27 – Showcase of Women Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we had an unusual pitch roster of the first three entrepreneurs being women. RegDesk First up, Priya Bhutani from Chicago, Illinois, pitched RegDesk, a marketplace for healthcare regulatory experts who can complete projects for major pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The company also has a subscription-based regulatory information service, and is

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Georges Lotigier, CEO of Vade Retro (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The question that still lingers in my mind is from a user’s point of view, people are getting signed-up for newsletters by marketeers left, right, and center. I get signed-up for random email newsletters all the time that I have not signed up for. This is becoming a standard practice in the email

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273rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 273rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, August 27, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Jorn Lyseggen, CEO of Meltwater (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? You’ve been running this public company? Jorn Lyseggen: Yes. I was a public CEO and experienced all the exciting stuff that it entails. After a while, I got eager to start a new company. I ended up starting Meltwater, which is the company I run today. Sramana Mitra: Meltwater was

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Predicting Elite Design Performance

By Guest Author Soren Petersen With the current wave of design thinking in business, top tier designers are now in short supply. Corporations scout elite universities in their hunt for top performers who possesses the right mix of human skills and social networks. So, how different are the top tier designers from their peers and

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