From $100k to $1 Million: Should You Join an Accelerator?

There are over 8,000 accelerators around the world. Most of them fail. Before you decide to join one, you should try to understand why they fail, so that you do not end up failing with them. The first business accelerator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. In the last five years,

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Angie and her husband have built a portfolio of e-commerce businesses using a very unusual strategy. I had a lot of fun learning about their journey, and hope you would as well. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are

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Thursday, March 17 – 298th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 298th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 17, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Higher Education Technologies in 2016

Worldwide, higher education sector spending is forecast to grow 1.2% to reach $38.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner. This report from Gartner highlights the top 10 strategic technologies for Higher Education in 2016. These include Adaptive Learning, Predictive Analytics, and Collaboration Technology. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Amir Husain, CEO of SparkCognition (Part 5)

Amir Husain: Within our own area of cyber security, one of the things that’s happening at the large-scale level is that cyber security is being weaponized. This is very sad but it’s true. Cyber security is now becoming a weapon of warfare. You’ve seen where digital weaponry was used to rollback the Iranian nuclear program

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Greenwave Systems CEO Martin Manniche (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a little bit about the specifics of Greenwave. Where are you doing this company from? Where are you based? What are the specifics of the company? Martin Manniche: We started the company up front. We saw that there was a need for us to innovate in a different way and build

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Amir Husain, CEO of SparkCognition (Part 4)

Amir Husain: There are lots of examples where we found binaries that were not registering on any one of the 60 different anti-virus engines and yet our machine learning anti-virus capability gave them threat rating as high as 80%. As we actually investigated the envelope manually, we discovered that there was an embedded threat, and

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Greenwave Systems CEO Martin Manniche (Part 4)

Martin Manniche: I also think that the most intuitive way of controlling things is not with having a Swiss Army knife of applications. How many of you don’t have a smartphone with way too many applications where 85% of them are most likely never used? The most intuitive way of controlling things is using your

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