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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. Over 7,000 people have attended the roundtables.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

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Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. Jay does not have that yet.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. were born in India. And that’s just to get started. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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