Posted on Sunday, Mar 13th 2011
AMITA, the Association of MIT Alumnae, is holding a Women Entrepreneur Panel on Thursday, March 24, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at IBM in Foster City, CA. Come and be inspired by a panel of distinguished women from a variety of industries who have taken different paths to success. I will be the moderator, and panelists include Amy Pressman (Medallia), Jennifer Gill Roberts (Vivecoach), Carol Realini (Obopay), Wendy Lung (IBM Venture Capital) and others. Registration fee is $25. You can find more details and register here.
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Technology Stocks
Short-Term Troubles For ERI Don’t Dampen Prospects
A Peek Inside Zyngaville
Can Facebook Justify A $65 Billion Valuation?
LivingSocial Growing In Travel
The 1M/1M Deal Radar: Act-On Software, Beaverton, Oregon; The Betty Mills Company, San Mateo, California
Business Incubators
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Paul Bragiel, Managing Partner, i/o Ventures, San Francisco, California
Business Incubation Series: Interview With Ken Kousky, CEO, MidMichigan Innovation Center – Midland, Michigan
Entrepreneur Journeys Interviews
Building A Software Company From Toulouse, France: Jacques Soumeillan, CEO Of Cameleon Software
Outsourcing
Amit Shankardass And Andrew Kokes Of Sitel
Guest Authors
A series of excerpts from Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies
Roundtables
The next strategy roundtable is Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. Find details and register here. The March 10 recap, “Spotlight on India,” is here and the recording here. The poll winner was iGlobify; see the Facebook poll page.
This segment is a part in the series : Catching Up On Readings
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