May 19 Roundtable Poll Winner

Abinash Karana’s 10screens was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Roundtable Recap: May 19 – Making Money From Blogs

During today’s roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models.

As a business blogger myself, I have given an inordinate amount of thought to the subject, and it has led me to create the 1M/1M Affiliate Program to support the work of media professionals who advocate entrepreneurship and innovation. In my post Making Money With Blogs, I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.
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May 19 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording:

1M/1M, Microsoft BizSpark Meetup In Bangalore On Thursday, May 19

The first 1M/1M – BizSpark Meetup followed by a regular roundtable session will be held this Thursday, May 19, 2011, at Microsoft in Bangalore, India. Please bring along your laptops, Wifi will be available. Coffee, tea, and snacks provided, no charges. For more information and to register please contact Praveen Karoshi at karoshi.praveen@gmail.com. All are welcome!

Agenda:
7:30 – 7:45 p.m. – Short talk by 1M/1M Ambassador Rajesh Nair
7:45 – 8:00 p.m. – Brief address by Girish Joshi, Microsoft Bangalore
8:00 – 8:30 p.m. – Q&A and Networking
8:30 p.m. onwards – 1M/1M roundtable
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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, May 19

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing their startup ventures are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, May 19, 2011, starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, May 19

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing their startup ventures are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, May 19, 2011, starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope you will join us!

May 12 Roundtable Poll Winner

Taariq Lewis’ Stanzr was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Roundtable Recap: May 12 – Two Really Cool Companies

During today’s roundtable, we had two 1M/1M premium members discussing their businesses alongside Penworks, a new company we looked at for the first time. The premium members have been working with us for a bit and have made progress, so this was an interesting roundtable where we were able to discuss some more advanced issues.

Penworks
First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve.
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