Using Facebook For Lead Generation: Underground Elephant CEO Jason Kulpa (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jason Kulpa founded Underground Elephant in 2008. Underground Elephant is a leader in technology-based marketing, and is one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in San Diego. Kulpa was recently recognized for his outstanding leadership, and awarded the “Most Admired CEO” award by the San Diego Business

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: All these trends, the video collaboration trend, the online video trend, all of these are massive scalability problems. I think if five billion Internet users start doing video collaboration and video on-demand on a continuous basis, it will choke the network. So, network scalability is a significant problem that needs to be looked at

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Nightmare At SKS Microfinance

Andhra Pradesh state politics in India concerning the MFI sector are continuing to hurt the performance of the sector in the country. According to Credit Suisse, India’s leading MFI, SKS Microfinance is seeing loan recoveries in the state to be as low as 12% compared with the industry’s average recovery rate of 22%. SKS’s bad

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: AppRiver, Gulf Breeze, Florida

AppRiver — featured in this blog in 2009 — like Agiliance, finds itself once again on Inc. Magazine’s 2011 500|5000 list. Over the past two years, the company, which was founded in 2002 by CEO Michael Murdoch and CIO Joel Smith, has more than doubled its 2007 revenue of $11.4 million to $27.9 million, giving AppRiver a three-year

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Trends And Opportunities In Cloud Computing: Jim Burleigh, CEO Of Cloud9 (Part 7)

Sramana: It sounds like you are productizing a best practice in sales management. That would do very well for SMBs as well. Obviously there is low-hanging fruit you must pick now, but the SMB could be applicable for the future. Jim Burleigh: You hit an interesting point. Part of the implementation of our forecasting and

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The Creative Economy

By guest author Soren Petersen When you use creative professionals, you can achieve huge monetary as well as emotionally gratifying results. When these teams are successfully managed, profits from creative teams grow exponentially. One example is Apple’s value growing 1000% over the past 10 years. However, it takes a proactive effort. If you give up

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Strategy Consulting For Startups: $1,000 A Year vs. $5,000 A Day

We are proud of the entrepreneurs who are currently in our 1M/1M Premium Program. We call them early adopters. They understood the value of the 1M/1M right away. So far, everyone is working hard, advancing at their own pace and not giving up. Most paid the $1,000 fee out of their own pocket and, understandably,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 7)

SM: By 2020 we are going to have five billion people on the Internet, and there are going to be diverse types of connection, bandwidth, clients and so on. What do you think are some of the areas that entrepreneurs should look into when it comes to opportunities that pertain to the scaling of global networks

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