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During this week’s roundtable we listened to four presentations. The first two entrepreneurs are a part of the Startup Palm Beach meetup, the others are from our general community. Krowde First up, Daniel Gudema from Boca Raton, Florida, pitched Krowde, a mobile social network for small...

During this week’s roundtable, we collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania to support their student entrepreneurship drive. All four presenters today are semi finalists of the PennVention competition. AWARE First up, John Bergantino from Philadelphia, PA, pitched AWARE, a very...

You know how much I love seeing entrepreneurs from exotic places at these roundtables. During this week’s roundtable, we had one from Barbados. Approyo First, Chris Carter from Wisconsin pitched Approyo, a Big Data solutions provider in the SAP HANA eco-system. Chris is a member of our premium...

Today’s roundtable, once again, had huge geographical diversity, spanning presenters from Venezuela, China, India, and callers from Ireland, New York, Georgia, Virginia, etc. I always love to hear from entrepreneurs from so many different parts of the world. It’s thrilling to experience the...

During today’s roundtable, we had a couple of formal slide presentations, and a number of shorter dialogues. Direct Dialect First, Thelson Richardson from Miami, Florida, pitched Direct Dialect, a language teaching application. Thelson started off by saying that he wants to build 700 products...

Of course, today’s roundtable is a major milestone in the history of 1M/1M. It reminds me of our baby-steps and experiments early on in 2008, long before 1M/1M came into being. There is always a bit of poignancy in celebrating such milestones. You can read our synthesis: Mentoring Startups: 10...

Nanothermo First up, Rekha Bangalore from Austin, Texas, pitched Nanothermo, a thermal cooling technology for LED lighting. Rekha needs some funding, and is having difficulty cracking the seed market in Austin. Well, semiconductor, cleantech and related markets are seeing very little funding...

During today’s roundtable, we saw a couple of entrepreneurs from the portfolio of Kae Capital based in India. Shopsense First up, Farooq Adam, working with Kae Capital from Mumbai, India, pitched Shopsense, a retail technology solution that enables brick-and-mortar retailers to place large...

During today’s roundtable, we launched the book Seed India: How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap In India. The Indian seed eco-system, after improving somewhat for a few years, is stalling, if not regressing, currently. This book is a realistic, pragmatic look at the options entrepreneurs have...

Today’s roundtable started with the launch of my new book, Feminine Feminism. I read the opening chapter titled ‘Talented Women: Please Do NOT Quit’ for our audience. Here’s how that chapter begins… Five years ago, a good friend of mine hanged herself. I had coffee with her the day before...

Today’s roundtable had several entrepreneurs who seem like serious folks with the resilience to see their visions through to fruition. HappyWeddings First up, Janaki Pendyala from Hyderabad, India, pitched HappyWeddings, a portal for wedding organizers to connect with vendors like caterers and...

Today’s roundtable had its usual share of entrepreneurs dreaming about raising capital on concepts without validation. Sometimes, I wonder, when, if ever, we’re going to get this epidemic under control! MoYoTv First up, Dollie Darko, from Greenwich, CT, pitched MoYoTv – a television network...

Today’s roundtable had some interesting entrepreneurs from around the world. EventsTiger First up, Nizamudheen Valliyattu, from Chennai, India, pitched EventsTiger, an ‘event community’ where organizers promote events, participants network, etc. My main issue with the idea is that it proposes...

We launched a new book at today’s roundtable with a short reading from one of the chapters. The book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid, is a collection of essays introducing my current thinking on why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing get...

Today’s roundtable had an interesting mix of companies ranging from Internet-of-things to daily deals platforms. SSRLabs We started with Axel Kloth from Palo Alto, California, who pitched SSRLabs, a semiconductor concept. Axel rightly pointed out that chip funding in the Valley has dried up...