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

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The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet. Discuss.

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Design Museum Boston

Up and Running

Derek and I co-founded Design Museum Boston in 2009 to educate the public about the role of design in our lives. There are over 60,000 designers working in Massachusetts alone — the state is well past the national average when it comes to professional designers. So we started in 2009 with the goal of creating a brick-and-mortar museum.

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Venture Capital is Back But Moving Up-Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. First of all, investors put $5.9

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.