Jan. 5 – 334th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 334th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 5, 2017, 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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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Becky Takeda-Tinker, President of Colorado State University Global Campus (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’d like to ask you some questions. Help me understand what is the size of the student body and how that splits into different areas that you’re talking about. You talked about seven areas of IT certification. It sounds like they’re well-tuned to job prospects. How big is that in your student body?

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Becky Takeda-Tinker, President of Colorado State University Global Campus (Part 1)

This discussion is about CSU’s online program that caters to 17,000 students. Many online higher education trends are discussed at length. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as your activities at Colorado State. Becky Takeda-Tinker: I’m the President of Colorado State University Global Campus. We are the nation’s only

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Catching Up On Readings: Merry Christmas

Wish you all a very happy Christmas. Christmas is the time for lots of music, dance, food, travel, and shopping. This Gift Guide from Washington Post provides great gift ideas for home décor, food lovers, coders, gamers, travelling, and kids. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Building a Big Data Venture: Hiro Yoshikawa, CEO of Treasure Data (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: For your core business, you go seek out customers in a direct selling model. The open-source conversion is not your core business? Hiro Yoshikawa: Correct. This is one of the interesting challenges that we are facing right now. Some investors called us open-source business 2.0. Historically, the open-source commercialization companies have a very typical

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