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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I wanted to use technology to connect consumers and homebrewers so that when one of our members is drinking a beer we feature they can have (almost) the same experience as if they went to a small brewery and had the brewer serve them beer and tell them about it. Thanks to Claude Burns, Noble Brewer ! 5) Insane Work Ethic.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Web Design/Tech Services. North Carolina. North Dakota. South Carolina.