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160th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Joint Session with Startup Weekend
By Guest Post at February 9, 2013 | 9:07 am | 0 Comment
160th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Joint Session with Startup Weekend Today’s roundtable was a joint session with Startup Weekend, Jacksonville, so we got a great glimpse of Florida entrepreneurs. Whata.tv First up, Jose Fermin from Jacksonville, Florida, pitched Whata.tv. Joe is Venezuelan, and misses television content from his country. His research more...
159th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Return On Investment
By Guest Post at February 2, 2013 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
159th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Return On Investment Today’s roundtable, as usual, had a wonderful international flavor, with entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe represented. In particular, we had presenters and attendees from Italy, Chile, Brazil, India, Canada, and various parts of the US. I am particularly pleased to see the rise of Latin more...
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club
By Guest Post at January 26, 2013 | 10:02 am | 0 Comment
158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Meet The One Million Club Today’s roundtable started with us introducing the audience to The Million Dollar Club, the 1M/1M premium members who have crossed the $1M mark. We love to introduce you to more and more of them as role models, with the accompanying message that you can do it too. Virtual Freedom As for the more...
157th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The Second New Year Challenge 2013 Final
By Guest Post at January 19, 2013 | 8:49 am | 0 Comment
157th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The Second New Year Challenge 2013 Final The second final of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 was held today during our 157th roundtable. The contest was judged by two successful 1M/1M premium members. Each has been in the program for two years and has traveled the zero to $1M journey and beyond, successfully. more...
156th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners of the New Year Challenge 2013 First Final
By Guest Post at January 11, 2013 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
156th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners of the New Year Challenge 2013 First Final The first final of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 was held today during our 156th roundtable. The finalists were selected by audience voting. The contest was judged by two 1M/1M premium members, beside myself. Let me first introduce you to the two judges. Based in more...
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at January 4, 2013 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
155th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Last Few Hours To Vote For 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 The voting phase of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge is coming to a close at midnight on January 3 and several promising entrepreneurs are emerging as the frontrunners. Everyone is now able to view the entries here (according to their ranks) and the 20 finalists will be more...
154th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge Voting Round Begins
By Guest Post at December 21, 2012 | 8:21 am | 0 Comment
154th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge Voting Round Begins Today we hosted the last free public 1M/1M roundtable for 2012. In a characteristically international session, we had three presenters from Israel, one from India, as well as entrepreneurs from Chile and Malaysia. Webbing First Avraham Orbach, from Jerusalem, Israel, pitched more...
153rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Focus On Artificial Intelligence
By Guest Post at December 14, 2012 | 8:30 am | 0 Comment
153rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Focus On Artificial Intelligence Every year, in December, as I think through the various trends I see from our blog’s coverage, I start to synthesize the nuggets. This year, one of the trends I see clearly is an increased adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various walks of business. At today’s roundtable, we had more...
152nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IBM SmartCamp Barcelona
By Guest Post at December 12, 2012 | 8:46 am | 0 Comment
152nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IBM SmartCamp Barcelona For this week’s roundtable, we worked with Marco Laucelli, who manages IBM’s SmartCamp program in Barcelona. Their recently concluded SmartCamp event had over 90 applicants, and five finalists. In today’s event, three of these five finalists were the presenters. Quadrigram First up, Ayman more...
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013
By Guest Post at December 7, 2012 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
151st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Year Challenge 2013 After the 150th roundtable celebration last week, we’re back to regular business! During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitch. Before I talk about them, I’d like to encourage all entrepreneurs who want to apply for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge to submit completed more...
150th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: An Inside View Into Mentoring 2.0
By Guest Post at November 30, 2012 | 8:23 am | 0 Comment
150th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: An Inside View Into Mentoring 2.0 It is hard to believe that we have been running FREE mentoring sessions for entrepreneurs since 2008, and just concluded our 150th roundtable on Nov 29. What started as an experiment four years back has really caught on, and blossomed into the foremost mentoring solution in the more...
149th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Democratization Of Startup Financing
By Guest Post at November 16, 2012 | 9:58 am | 0 Comment
149th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Democratization Of Startup Financing Before I get into today’s roundtable, I want to point you to a discussion on Democratization of Startup Financing that I suggest you read, given your interest in early stage startups. Here’s an excerpt: In anticipation of the JOBS Act, the democratization of the startup and small more...
148th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Never Too Old To Startup
By Guest Post at November 15, 2012 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment
148th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Never Too Old To Startup During this week’s roundtable, we worked with four entrepreneurs, two of whom are premium members of the 1M/1M program. One of them, John Lynch, is our oldest member. At 90, John is doing a startup company in the area of innovative story-telling and legacy preservation for seniors. I hope that all more...
147th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata MUST Clinch This Time
By Guest Post at November 9, 2012 | 8:43 am | 0 Comment
147th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata MUST Clinch This Time I have been trying to get entrepreneurship development in Kolkata moving since 1995, when I started my own entrepreneurial career. At the time, I was one of the first to set up a Silicon Valley startup with a development back-end in Kolkata. The environment was hard. The infrastructure was more...
146th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Emerging Kerala
By Guest Post at November 3, 2012 | 8:47 am | 0 Comment
146th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Emerging Kerala I spent the last few days in Cochin, at the inaugural edition of TiECon Kerala. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t sure how much entrepreneurial energy exists in Kerala today, so I had some concerns about the event. The organizers of TiECon also did not have a clear sense of what to expect. Registration was at more...
145th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Carbon Trading In Bulgaria
By Guest Post at October 20, 2012 | 8:55 am | 0 Comment
145th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Carbon Trading In Bulgaria Soon I am off to India to deliver the keynote address at TiECon in Kerala and help judge a 1M/1M Pitch-Fest competition next Friday, October 26. Then, on Thursday, November 1, I will be leading the Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest Competition at iLEAD. As part of a joint effort with local leaders to more...
144th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Don’t Wait For Someone To Fund Your Alpha
By Guest Post at October 13, 2012 | 9:40 am | 0 Comment
144th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Don’t Wait For Someone To Fund Your Alpha During today’s roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs, both with interesting business ideas. Khummo First, Josep Ballestes from Barcelona, Spain, pitched Khummo, a SaaS solution for hotels to collect feedback from customers through a mobile app. Josep already has a more...
143rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest
By Guest Post at October 6, 2012 | 9:06 am | 0 Comment
143rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest During today’s roundtable, we spoke with three entrepreneurs. Before I get into the details of those discussions, let me alert you to an upcoming contest. On November 1st, at iLEAD in Kolkata, India, 10 companies will be selected to pitch their businesses during the Kolkata 1M/1M Pitch-Fest more...
142nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Five 1M/1M Ambassadors Win Scholarships
By Guest Post at September 14, 2012 | 8:29 am | 0 Comment
142nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Five 1M/1M Ambassadors Win Scholarships During today’s roundtable, we started the session by celebrating five of our high performing ambassadors: Danielle Faber from Ontario, Canada; Erin Frank from Madison, Wisconsin;Javier Hernández Pérez from Madrid, Spain; Shilpa Kolte from Singapore, Malaysia; and Saikat Sengupta from more...
141st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: OrangeScape Launches KiSSFLOW
By Guest Post at September 8, 2012 | 8:34 am | 0 Comment
141st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: OrangeScape Launches KiSSFLOW During today’s roundtable, we spent a large part of the session working with 1M/1M premium company OrangeScape’s CTO, Mani Doraisamy, and the strategy for the company's new product KiSSFLOW. OrangeScape, by the way, is based in Chennai, India, and has been part of the 1M/1M premium program more...
