Roundtable Recap: May 19, Making Money From Blogs

During today’s roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. As a business blogger myself, I have given an inordinate amount of thought to the subject, and it has led

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay I am talking to Pravin Gandhi, a founding partner at Seedfund, which is one of the India’s leading early-stage venture capital funds, with operations in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi. Seedfund was founded in 2006 by Bharati Jacob, Mahesh Murthy, and Pravin Gandhi.  In 2010, they raised

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May 19 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording:

Spotify Expected To Launch Movies, U.S. Service

According to ABI research, mobile music streaming will see significant growth in the coming years with the subscriber base expected to cross 161 million by 2016, compared to 5.9 million projected by the end of the current year. That translates to a compounded annual growth rate of 95%. By 2012, Asia Pacific should become the

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Making Money With Blogs

Blogs are no longer new, bloggers no more a rarity. Many of us have travelled the path of blogging, and some like Michael Arrington and Arianna Huffington have made serious money leveraging their blogs as significant media platforms. In this post, I want to give you some thoughts on making money blogging, an endeavor that

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1M/1M Creates Affiliate Program, Will Help Entrepreneurship, Tech, And Business Bloggers Monetize

Today many quality advocates and providers to the entrepreneurial ecosystem are either underpaid or not paid at all, including some popular entrepreneurship, tech, and business bloggers, angel investor networks, business incubation associations, and entrepreneurship development organizations. In line with the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) philosophy to strengthen the entire entrepreneurial eco-system, the new

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A Case Study In SEO And Affiliate Marketing: MyCorporation CEO Deborah Sweeney (Part 7)

Sramana: Talk to me about the structure of purchasing the company back from Intuit. Deborah Sweeney: For the most part we structured a complete asset purchase agreement. I bought all of the assets, and everything that Intuit had owned transitioned to me. The deal was super smooth because Intuit was very much in tune with

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