Forbes Column 2010: CIO Priority: Virtual Collaboration

Global 2000 CIOs are using telepresence and virtual reality modeling to reduce costs. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, CIO Priority: Virtual Collaboration.

Blueprint For Saving 11 Billion Dollars In Healthcare Costs: MD On-Line CEO Bill Bartzak (Part 2)

SM: In 1995, when you were starting MD On-Line, you were on your own. Who did you have to actually build the technology, and how did you find them?

BB: The first programmer I hired was Alan Sagan. I met him through a mutual friend. He is the nephew of Carl Sagan. He owned a company called Bottom Line Software Developers in San Francisco. >>>

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: Dane Carlson

Dane Carlson lists 20 Things Not To Do Before Starting A Business, including: >>>

The EJ Methodology: How To Check Infant Entrepreneur Mortality

I would not have believed this had someone just told me so. But based on my roundtables, I have now a reasonable sample of entrepreneurs to do some trend analysis and draw a few conclusions: >>>

Blueprint For Saving 11 Billion Dollars In Healthcare Costs: MD On-Line CEO Bill Bartzak (Part 1)

Bill Bartzak founded MD On-Line, Inc. in 1995. Today, the company is one of the fastest-growing technology firms in the country, having been named to Inc. magazine’s Inc 500 in 2004, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in New Jersey. Bartzak has a strong background of bootstrapped startup ventures in multiple industries.

SM: Bill, let’s start with your background. Where do you come from? What is the beginning of your personal story?

BB: I was born in Livingston, New Jersey. I had my first job when I was nine years old delivering newspapers, because my dad was in charge of circulation for the Star-Ledger. That was the beginning of my entrepreneurial experience. >>>

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: SVB

SVB stands for Silicon Valley Blogger, who writes The Digerati Life. She has a number of posts on bootstrapping online businesses, but the one that I found really interesting is: Make Money Blogging: Top Bloggers And How Much They Earn . >>>

Deal Radar 2010: MaxiScale

MaxiScale, a cloud-scale file serving and storage platform provider, was founded in 2007 by Gianluca Rattazzi and Francesco Lacapra. At that time, major cloud computing and Web companies were transitioning away from standard enterprise storage platforms to commodity hardware and smart software. >>>

Addressing America’s Healthcare Human Resource Shortage: DeVry Inc. CEO Daniel Hamburger (Part 7)

SM: Do you offer scholarships or financial assistance for your students?

DH: We certainly give back. We like to say that we are doing well by doing good. We are doing well as an organization by doing good things for society and our students. That includes $16 million in scholarships last year alone; 10% of our after-tax income was put into scholarship programs. >>>