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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Who is Getting Venture Capital Money This Year?

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But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. No surprises here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

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Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. Sajeeva and his cofounders have good domain knowledge of the retail business, but have not yet done sufficient validation of the idea. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

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We discussed the possibility of recruiting a couple of cofounders who can help him build out the core skill-set needed on his team right now. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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