Oct 7 Roundtable Recording

Here you are, in case you missed the roundtable this morning:

As you will see in the chat transcript, we had people attending from Berlin, Finland, Mexico City, Vancouver, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, San Francisco, San Antonio, Austin, and many more locations. We discussed businesses that ranged from software for hiring and promoting, SaaS practice management for hospitals and diagnostic labs in India, to video-based online marketing.

The next roundtable is on Oct 21, you can register here. Pitch slots are filling up really quickly, so please sign up asap.

Roundtable Starting at 10 AM Pacific

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Micron Beats Estimates; Memory Market Recovering?

On September 29, Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE: MU), the leading memory chipmaker, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009 results. Although the company booked its fourteenth straight quarterly loss, there was one bright spot in that losses were less than last year and beat estimates. Micron’s shares have more than quadrupled since the beginning of the year. Are these signs that the memory market is also recovering? Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 7)

SM: Is there anything else that you want to add to this conversation? An industry which has become a large one, and which I feel would do well with stories, is the electronic gaming and virtual world industry. Do you have any thoughts on it?

RM: In the past I have gone up to Microsoft and Sierra Online and given my story lecture to people who are create video games. They have ambition to create far more complex, content-rich video games, but they always hit the wall. >>>

Next Positioning Roundtable On Wednesday, October 7

Those looking for guidance while developing their business ideas find these roundtables to be immensely helpful.  Sramana Mitra will encourage entrepreneurs to do their due diligence and will share her valuable advice. This event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. We hope that you will join us!  You can find more details and register here.

Deal Radar 2009: PSS Systems

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on the intersection of the law, compliance, and technology. In 2003, Deidre Paknad predicted that companies would have to change their practices for managing litigation due to the increase in electronic data and founded PSS systems. She spent a year interviewing practitioners and researching the space to develop Atlas, a software suite designed to help companies manage the internal aspects of electronic discovery and defensible disposal. >>>

Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 6)

SM: I read your book before taking your story seminar, but when I did take the seminar what I found impressive was the level of clarity of the framework of storytelling that you present. The way you have approached the framework of storytelling is unique. I don’t know many people who have been able to get to the essence of a framework. I have worked with a lot of frameworks that help build businesses and bring products to market. I am a big admirer of good frameworks, and I have the training to recognize one when I see one.

RM: That is very kind of you. A framework of story, as I try to make it clear, is in a way like the last to a shoe. From that last you could make a pump, running shoe or a wing tip. It is a last. Storytelling is a form. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Cellufun

Today’s Deal Radar shifts its focus back to mobile gaming with Cellufun. Arthur Goikhman, Steve Dacek, and Cary Torkelson founded Cellufun as a single-user downloadable game business in 2006. After creating a few downloadable games, the team learned that not only were they expensive to create, but they also had a hit-or-miss success rate and a limited shelf life. >>>