1M/1M: Affiliate Network For Entrepreneurship Blogs

Does anyone know if an affiliate network exists for entrepreneurship bloggers? I know from personal experience writing a well read and highly regarded (but relatively way smaller than the TC or GigaOm/VenutreBeat type properties, making it irrelevant for ad based monetization) that smaller entrepreneurship / tech bloggers have a hard time monetizing their efforts.

Would it make sense to have an Affiliate Network that helps these blogs monetize?

A related question I am toying with is what if we pull together an affiliate program for 1M/1M, which is a relatively high-end and high priced solution ($1000 annual membership fee), and we can offer a solid monetization model to the affiliates (say, 10% affiliate fee with a 9-12 month cookie duration).

Any thoughts from entrepreneurship and tech bloggers on whether this would be interesting to you? Conceivably, even if you have 10,000 readers, the monetization could be interesting.

I would appreciate any feedback you offer, as this is a serious strategy question that our team is contemplating. Thanks.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: CapLinked, Manhattan Beach, California

My regular readers may be surprised to the see the subject of today’s 1M/1M Deal Radar. For the past three years, Deal Radar has been covering companies that have at least $1 million in annual revenue. It’s an important milestone that we take seriously. So why CapLinked, a pre-revenue company? Well, primarily because it’s a company that has been misunderstood as financing exchange, and to give the 1M/1M entrepreneurs a clear view of what they really do. CapLinked is an online platform for private companies, investors, and their advisors to collaborate, manage a capital raising or asset sale, and exchange updates. >>>

1M/1M: Video Message Based On Recent Talks

I have been giving a lot of talks lately, and interacting with hundreds of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship development leaders around the world. Here is an YouTube video synthesizing some of the core points of these discussions on bootstrapping, positioning, and lean startups:

Internships With 1M/1M

Readers, it’s internship season, and I want to highlight where we have opportunities within the 1M/1M program. Internships can last as long as you like, but need to be for a minimum of 3 months. You need to commit at least 5 hours a week to the project.

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: mopay, Palo Alto, California

According to Mashable, the global combined market for all types of mobile payments is expected to double from its current value to reach more than $600 billion by 2013. The mobile payment market for goods and services, excluding contactless near field communication (NFC) transactions and money transfers, is expected to exceed $300 billion globally by 2013. This is good news for companies such as mopay, which develops payment solutions that allow consumers to buy goods online via their mobile or landline phones. Online retailers can also use mopay instead of relying exclusively on credit card merchants. The aim is to offer consumers a better way to pay for online goods and merchants a safe and reliable option. >>>

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 Aneesh Khanna saying, “The Saturday Mumbai TiE session, was a very enriching experience. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money.”

It’s rewarding to hear from people who attended the session and found immediate and actionable value.

The Mumbai roundtable was extremely interactive and fun. We did two sessions of five entrepreneurs each.
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India Trip: Chennai, Mumbai, Pune

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Spigit, Pleasanton, California

Regular readers will be familiar with The 1M/1M Deal Radar’s coverage of crowdsourcing through companies such as crowdSPRING, UserVoice, and the 1M/1M partner CrowdEngineering. Today’s post looks at a different kind of idea management: innovation management. Pleasanton, California–based Spigit makes social business collaboration and innovation management software. This software is designed to tap into the collective intelligence of an organization and transform it into actionable, predictive information. By incorporating incentives, idea graduation, idea trading and real-time analytics, Spigit helps companies to harness the social capital within their organization. >>>