Roundtable Recap: April 16 – 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network Incubator

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post. I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. After the event, I received an e-mail from

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Openings To Pitch At Tomorrow’s Roundtable

If you know an entrepreneur who could benefit from pitching and discussing their business with Sramana Mitra, please let them know I have a few last minute openings to pitch during tomorrow’s roundtable. Instructions for pulling together a few simple slides can be found here. Anyone interested can contact me at maureen@sramanamitra.com. Thanks!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: As you said, VMware is a company that is growing through acquisitions, and this is a very fast clip of acquisitions. You are inheriting all sorts of diverse systems. Do you see any patterns among the companies that you bring in? And are there any standard processes or methodologies for integration? Mark Egan:

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs In The Northeastern U.S. On Thursday, April 21

Entrepreneurs from the northeastern U.S. with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are encouraged to pitch their businesses at or attend the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, April 21, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What kinds of organizational changes are taking place as a consequence of all these different things happening? You said your infrastructure IT organization employs the equivalent of 8.5 people. Is that the total IT organization, or has the IT organization as such decreased in size? How have you reorganized or the organization reshuffled

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Well, there was one [analytics company] that I liked a lot but they seem to have gone out of business; it was a company called Lucidera. Did you see that? Mark Egan: I am not familiar with them.

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs In The Northeastern U.S. On Thursday, April 21

Entrepreneurs from the northeastern U.S. with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are encouraged to pitch their businesses at or attend the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, April 21, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here. All are welcome!

April 9 Roundtable Poll Winner

Girish Mathrubootham’s Freshdesk was chosen the best business of those presented at the live roundtable in Chennai on April 9, 2011, through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here.