Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: The other thing people need to understand is that technology is becoming mainstream. When technology becomes mainstream, you get winners and losers. And what’s happening now is it’s getting harder and harder to be a big Internet player. And, you could say that for biotech, too,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: Around 2006–2007, I ended up starting another company called 411Sync, which was doing mobile search. It did OK, but it didn’t go anywhere. And then I spent a year and a half trying different things. Now I’ve been on my new company since May 2008. It’s

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fortieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Anurag (Anu) Nigam, president of Sand Hill Angels, which is an angel investing group in Silicon Valley with more than 60 members. Anu is also the founder and CEO of BuzzBox,

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Top 20 Serial Entrepreneur Interviews

In the recap mode, here’s a list of the top 20 serial entrepreneurs I have spoken with: * Philippe Courtot – a very young 63-year old CEO of Qualys.

Top 10 Web Entrepreneur Interviews

I have done numerous interviews with entrepreneurs on this forum. Here’s a list of 10 Web entrepreneur interviews that I think have the most interesting strategy discussions on how each of them are building their companies:

Catching Up On Readings: Vision India 2020

In case you are reading today, Happy July 4th. And here’s some reading to catch up on: Vision India 2020: Renaissance, Gangotri, Maya Ray, Elixar, Bioscope. Entrepreneur Case Studies: Carol Realini (Obopay), Steve Hafner (Kayak), Ramu Yalamanchi (Hi5), Francisco Martin (Strands), Samir Arora (Glam) and Jacob Jacobsson (Blaze DFM).

Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi (Part 8)

SM: Have you seen advertisers take advantage of the platforms? RY: Yes, we have. Advertisers are interested in, and this is not exclusive to applications, identifying methods that will result in more users having a higher level of engagement with them. Applications provide a terrific way to do that. It can be accomplished through a

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Social Networking Without Boundaries : hi5 CEO Ramu Yalamanchi (Part 7)

SM: Social networks are becoming the voice of a generation. RY: Another thing to think about is that people are fundamentally social. What is happening online is a reflection of social behavior in the real world. Sites like ours just enhancing natural behavior.