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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Jimmy asked if he should be raising money at this point.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

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Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

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Premium member Ajit Narayen, Engineer and Founder at Invention Labs in Chennai, India, was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators by MIT Tech Review for 2011 and was named Innovator of the Year India several months back. Of 1M/1M he says, “The value of your program is amazing.