269th Roundtable Recording On July 23, 2015: Future of K-12 Education with Betsy Corcoran, CEO of EdSurge

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July 30 – 270th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 270th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 30, 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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Roundtable Recap: July 23 – Future of K-12 Education

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our special guest, Betsy Corcoran, Founder and CEO of EdSurge, and an authority on the subject of educational technology. We learnt a lot from Betsy today. Watchful Eye Security First up, Kevin Coleman from Wilmington, Delaware, pitched Watchful Eye Security, a real-time surveillance technology company. Kevin needs to

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269th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 269th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 23, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Would it be fair to say that you were able to expand your margin substantially through this process? What kind of numbers are we talking? In the kind of strategic shift that you described, what does that do to the business in terms of margin? Jeff Mullarkey: After that, we delivered a much

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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You started with the model of doing value-added resellers primarily. VARs are not hugely profitable businesses as you know from your previous experience as well as earlier versions of this one. Can you talk about how the business model evolved as you made this next strategic move into the cloud data center? Jeff

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Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of the competition, when you started tinkering with virtualization in 2005, it was lesser known and everything was immature. Today, it’s mainstream and well-penetrated. What is your experience of the evolution of the competitive landscape in the market? Adam Stern: It’s mainstream in that people know what cloud means. Quite often,

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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about that next inflection point. What happened? What do you think drove that? What were the strategic moves that you made to get that next level inflection? Jeff Mullarkey: It really started with us analyzing the value that clients actually got out of working with us. We were working, typically, with

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