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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

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On these sites an employer can post openings and search for a good match with relative ease and at a low cost. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 requires all states to set up health insurance exchanges by January of 2014. Photo: Frank M. Great reads on small business and entrepreneurship.

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Trying Something New On Immigration In Colorado

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it on 9/10/2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement. We’ll cover the cost of the H1-B visa if necessary, which is easy to acquire because H1-B visas for universities are uncapped. So, I’m going to try something different.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

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The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. In Massachusetts for example, there are 82,007 millionaires. I can name perhaps 3 millioniares who live in Massachusetts whom I know personally. Wait, did I miss fame? dobrym programist?,

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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

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In 1809, Kies patented a new method of weaving straw with silk and thread, which proved to be a cost-effective way to make work bonnets. During 1810 alone, the new method brought in more than $500,000 in sales in Massachusetts, or the equivalent of $4.7 million in today’s dollars. Photo credit: Wikipedia].

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A Call to Arms on the IPO Malaise and Inaction

Seeing Both Sides

The IPO market has improved somewhat in 2011 and so perhaps that has taken some pressure off, but the fact is that the regulations and costs associated with an IPO are so overwhelmingly daunting for our young venture-backed companies that they simply avoid them altogether.

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