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

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Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Directtv went to urbanspoon to help ppl to find sports bars with premium sports channels. Mobile incubator lab. Zynga poker model- money going in and no money going out, reduces liability. 75k apps on ipad, price of ipad apps going up. A lot of women are spending more time on mobile, looking for restaurants, where to shop.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DirectTV went to urbanspoon to help ppl find sports bars with premium DirectTV sports channels near you. Mobile incubator lab. A lot of women are spending more time on mobile, looking for restaurants, where to shop. 80-90% are free apps in app stores. Urbanspoon closed the loop by now having a reservation system for restaurants.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. Here’s what they found. Lessons Learned.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur.