Bootstrapping Using Services: FullBottle CEO Reed Berglund (Part 1)

Continuing with our Bootstrapping Using Services theme, FullBottle is an interesting social media marketing venture that taps into the reach and engagement capacity of influencers to attract customers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Reed

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November 13 Brainstorming With The Indian Media on Entrepreneurship Development

It was perfectly worthwhile to wake up at 3:30 a.m. and head to Cisco’s telepresence room in Santa Clara this morning at the crack of dawn. What followed was an animated discussion with friends – old and new – in the Indian media. For me, above and beyond everything else, it was great fun brainstorming

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Forbes Column 2009: India’s Next Celebrities

This is what I intend to discuss with the Indian media today, read my Zero In column for this week: India’s Next Celebrities. I have to wake up at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow and go to Cisco’s Telepresence center in Santa Clara to meet with the Indian media in five Indian cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai,

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Disney Should Study Slumdog

There was a little less sparkle in the Magic Kingdom this quarter with the announcement of Disney’s Q2 results. Revenues fell 7% to $8.09 billion, which was slightly lower than the Street’s expectations of $8.15 billion. EPS of $0.43 was marginally higher than the market’s expected $0.40.

Deal Radar 2008: PaidContent

PaidContent—the flagship site of ContentNext Media Inc.— is a blog site that covers news on media related technology worldwide. It was founded by editor and publisher Rafat Ali in 2002 in a bid to raise his personal profile and find a new job. Four years later Ali made PaidContent a business and founded ContentNext Media,

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Vision India 2020: Bioscope

Professor Raj Reddy at Carnegie Mellon University first urged me to look at micro-franchise as a vehicle for economic development. Today, micro-finance has become a world-renowned phenomenon, especially with Dr. Yunus’ Nobel Prize two years back. [You can read my interview with Raj here.]

Deal Radar 2008: Brightcove

Brightcove is an online video publishing company that lets users—both established media networks and independent content makers—monetize their content through ad revenues. It was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who is now CEO.

Deal Radar 2008: Metaweb

Metaweb Technologies, a spin off from Applied Minds, aims to build a better infrastructure for the web. The company, co-founded by Danny Hillis, was spun off in January 2005, and is based in San Francisco, California. Its primary product is Freebase, ‘an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge’. This database is free to use

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