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140th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Hybrid Business Models
By Guest Post at September 1, 2012 | 8:25 am | 0 Comment
140th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Hybrid Business Models During today’s roundtable, we discussed a diverse range of businesses, the best of which has a hybrid business model, with a deep understanding of e-commerce and physical supply chains. LocalFitTank First, Christina Hall from San Diego, California, pitched LocalFitTank, a service for fitness more...
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Attention, FinTech Entrepreneurs!
By Guest Post at August 25, 2012 | 9:43 am | 0 Comment
139th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 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 10. The finals are scheduled for October 4 and October 11. The contest is focused on financial technology entrepreneurs, and TradeKing, an online more...
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage
By Guest Post at July 27, 2012 | 8:19 am | 0 Comment
137th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Date First, Don’t Rush Into A Marriage During today’s roundtable, we worked with two 1M/1M premium members, one from Israel and another from Malaysia, and a pharmaceutical entrepreneur from California. Zuznow First, Racheli Levkovich from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched Zuznow, a mid-tier solution for transforming more...
136th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of A&N Media-Elance Contest With Kings College, London
By Guest Post at July 21, 2012 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
136th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of A&N Media-Elance Contest With Kings College, London During today’s roundtable, we held the finals of the A&N Media-Elance contest co-hosted by King’s College, London. This was perhaps one of the absolute best sets of pitches at a contest final this year. Happerture First, Dr. Dele Omotosho and Michela more...
135th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Western Massachusetts
By Guest Post at July 14, 2012 | 8:34 am | 0 Comment
135th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Western Massachusetts During today’s roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Western Massachusetts, spanning the Northampton – Amherst area and the home of Smith College (my undergraduate alma mater), Amherst College, UMass, Mt. Holyoke and Hampshire College. Bakepedia First, Dede Wilson from Amherst, more...
134th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Challenge Of Navigating Long Sales Cycles
By Guest Post at July 6, 2012 | 8:14 am | 0 Comment
134th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: The Challenge Of Navigating Long Sales Cycles During today’s roundtable, we had five presenters discussing a wide range of businesses mostly from India. Aurviz Technology First, Chetan Vinchhi from Bangalore, India, pitched Aurviz Technology, a video solution whereby enterprises can provide video-based customer more...
133rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Boulder
By Guest Post at June 29, 2012 | 8:16 am | 0 Comment
133rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Boulder During today’s roundtable, we worked with five entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado. We saw a lot of businesses with a ‘green’ theme, as well as with themes of ‘giving’. Boulder, Colorado, it seems, is a very socially conscious community. Also, four out of the five entrepreneurs today were more...
132nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Colorado
By Guest Post at June 23, 2012 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
132nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On Colorado During today’s roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Colorado and got a very nice view into what’s happening in that region. Co-hosting the roundtable with us was Innovation Pavilion in Denver, Colorado. Innovation Pavilion focuses on creating an eco-system for ideas and entrepreneurs to come more...
131st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest
By Guest Post at June 21, 2012 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment
131st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest With London School Of Economics SU Entrepreneurs & European Student Startups We co-hosted today’s roundtable with London School Of Economics SU Entrepreneurs and European Student Startups. A&N Media and Elance awarded three scholarships. Today’s judges were, for A&N Media, Charlie more...
130th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest With Imperial College, London
By Guest Post at June 15, 2012 | 10:34 am | 0 Comment
130th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of The A&N Media-Elance Contest With Imperial College, London We co-hosted today’s roundtable with Imperial College, London and held a contest. We awarded four scholarships. Today’s judges were Dominique Trempont, Board Member, DMGT (parent company of A&N Media); Rich Pearson, Chief Marketing Officer of Elance; more...
129th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of Second BlueSnap-Elance Finals
By Guest Post at June 9, 2012 | 9:39 am | 0 Comment
129th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of Second BlueSnap-Elance Finals During today’s roundtable, we held the second finals for the BlueSnap-Elance contest. Family Rx Tracker First, Stephanie Mountain from Leawood, Kansas, pitched Family Rx Tracker, an online service and mobile app for reminding caregivers about the administering times of elderly more...
128th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of First BlueSnap-Elance Finals
By Guest Post at June 7, 2012 | 8:28 am | 0 Comment
128th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Winners Of First BlueSnap-Elance Finals During today’s roundtable, we had the first of two finals for the BlueSnap-Elance contest that has been running for the past month or so. Winners will be receiving 1M/1M scholarships for one year. TravelGenie First, Swarna Ellison from New Jersey pitched TravelGenie, a deal site more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Go, Kolkata!
By Guest Post at June 2, 2012 | 8:54 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Go, Kolkata! During today’s roundtable, we saw an unprecedented number of entrepreneurs from Kolkata, which thrills me to bits because I am from Kolkata, and nothing would please me more than to see an entrepreneurial ground swell happening in that city. Project Site Tracker First, however, Eric Gan from Malaysia pitched more...
126th 1M/1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: BlueSnap-Elance Contest Applications Deadline This Weekend
By Guest Post at May 11, 2012 | 8:23 am | 0 Comment
126th 1M/1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: BlueSnap-Elance Contest Applications Deadline This Weekend Today’s roundtable started with a reminder of a set of contests on which we are collaborating with corporate partners. A&N Media is offering a series of 1M/1M scholarships to entrepreneurs in Britain to stimulate entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom. With a reach more...
125th 1M/1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at May 5, 2012 | 8:47 am | 0 Comment
125th 1M/1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Some Wonderful Opportunities With Corporate Partners Today’s roundtable marked our 125th Free session. We’ve come a long, long way, offering these free consulting sessions consistently for some years now. Through the last couple of weeks, you have learned about some wonderful opportunities that our corporate partners, A&N more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at April 27, 2012 | 8:59 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A Rare Women-Only Session Today’s roundtable was a women-only affair, with WITI (Women In Technology International) San Diego entrepreneurs leading the way. But before we dive into the pitches, let me point you to the opportunity with BlueSnap and Elance, which are awarding 12 1M/1M scholarships to digital commerce and more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tyranny Of The TAM
By Guest Post at April 21, 2012 | 8:34 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tyranny Of The TAM During today’s roundtable, I found myself discussing Total Available Market (TAM) issues with three of the five presenters. So let me start off by providing some guidance on the topic for all of them as well as others who are facing similar challenges. Folks, there can be no financing without a thorough more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: More From Indian Entrepreneurs
By Guest Post at April 13, 2012 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: More From Indian Entrepreneurs During today’s roundtable we worked mostly with those entrepreneurs who had signed up to pitch at our Bangalore roundtables last week, but did not get a slot. GoEasy First, Sathish G. from Chennai, India, pitched GoEasy, a mobile yellow pages app that he has started validating. Essentially, more...
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Rendezvous In Bangalore
By Guest Post at April 10, 2012 | 8:29 am | 1 Comments
1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Rendezvous In Bangalore On April 3rd, I spent an entire day with entrepreneurs in Bangalore, and we did three roundtables with 15 entrepreneur pitches. These roundtables were held at the Citrix Executive Briefing Center, hosted by Ravi Gururaj, Vice President of Products for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix and also head of the more...
121st Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On 3 Day Startup Tel-Aviv
By Guest Post at March 20, 2012 | 10:23 am | 0 Comment
121st Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On 3 Day Startup Tel-Aviv During today’s roundtable, we partnered with 3 Day Startup Tel-Aviv to coach entrepreneurs who are getting ready to pitch investors this weekend. The startups are hot off the presses and some have covered impressive ground in a very short time. Videochef Menachem Perlman pitched more...
