140th Roundtable Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s FREE online 140th 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, August 30, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition

On October 4 and 11, 10 companies (20 in total) will be selected to pitch online to Silicon Valley strategist Sramana Mitra as part of the TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition. Each 5-minute pitch will be followed by a 5-minute strategic analysis by Sramana. Following the pitches during each online roundtable event, Sramana and Dan Raju, CIO of online brokerage TradeKing, will select the top 6 entrepreneurs (12 altogether) who will be awarded a full tuition by TradeKing to Sramana’s 1M/1M program – valued at $1,000 each!

To compete, please complete the application form found here. Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions can be found here. The deadline to apply is September 28, 2012. We are interested in financial businesses for this competition, especially online tools providers, mobile tools providers, platform SDKs, and data visualization tools.

Everyone is welcome to register to attend on October 4 here and on October 11 here.
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Thursday, August 30: 140th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 140th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say here. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Thursday, August 30: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 140th 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 140th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say here. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us!

Design and Social Entrepreneurship

Guest post by Soren Petersen and Jaewoo Joo

The desire to improve human conditions is an inherent part of being a designer. Since creativity is driven mainly by intrinsic motivation, how can design drive social entrepreneurship? Posing this question to creative professionals on online social networks, however, resulted in only a dozen or so comments. It would seem that designers fundamentally see themselves as business executors, not initiators. However, designers, in their supporting role, firmly believe that design thinking can bring tremendous value to the tackling of complex social challenges. >>>

August 30: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 140th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 140th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say here. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us!

Roundtable Recap: August 23 – Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs!

We started today’s roundtable with a reminder that the TradeKing-1M/1M pitch fest is on as we speak, and the application deadline is September 28. The finals are scheduled for October 4 and October 11. The contest is focused on financial technology entrepreneurs, and TradeKing, an online brokerage, will be awarding 12 1M/1M scholarships, picked from 20 finalists, to entrepreneurs who are developing apps on their platform. The opportunity comes with a nice channel to bring your product to market.

Zollo
First, Daniel Rejzner from Israel, pitched Zollo, a social grocery-shopping site. Daniel’s premise is that consumers who spend a large chunk of their household incomes on groceries and FMCG would be willing to compare notes with community members to optimize their grocery bills by comparing prices, learning about coupons, discounts, etc.
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139th Roundtable Recording On August 23, 2012

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: