September 4 – 228th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 228th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 4, 2014, 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: August 28 – Interesting Businesses Amidst End Of Summer Blues

Today’s roundtable, the last of this summer, had a huge registration list to pitch. Those who were unable to get a slot, Maureen is working to ensure that you are scheduled for one of the upcoming sessions. Traveller’s Loose Change First up, Sanjeev Sharma from Danville, California, pitched Traveller’s Loose Change, a service to convert

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227th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 227th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 28, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

227th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 227th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, August 28, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thursday, August 28 – 227th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 227th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 28, 2014, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Assaf Rappaport, CEO of Adallom (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you fund the company? Assaf Rappaport: The company started with an investment from Sequoia Capital. Sramana Mitra: So you raised concept financing from Sequoia? Assaf Rappaport: Yes. Sramana Mitra: That’s very unusual. How did you manage to do that? That’s happening very rarely nowadays in the industry.

Box Delays Their IPO, While Dropbox Still Mulling Over It

Cloud computing, Big Data, mobility management, and collaboration are key priorities in enterprise IT trends these days. An IDC report estimates that by the year 2017, the number of mobile internet users will increase from 1.4 billion in 2013 to 2.3 billion. Within the cloud, Gartner estimates that enterprise spending will increase from $132 billion in 2013 to $244 billion by

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew Dornquast, CEO of Code42 (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you see services like Shutterfly going? Matthew Dornquast: People who focus on everything will ultimately win over the specialization. There is always some new temporal period where a new format will get off, but then the large platforms absorb them. Sramana Mitra: If you were to ask entrepreneurs to look at opportunities in

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