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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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Twitter Link Roundup #197 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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“Content marketing attracted 12% of marketers’ budgets in 2012 & more than half plan to spend more this year” – crowdspring.co/18qdqKa. 12 Questions: Meet Nausika Georgakopoulou (Greece) – crowdspring.co/15u9zNy. 40 inspiring portfolio pages | Design Reviver – crowdspring.co/1btPnx2.

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Europe’s Autumn (or, Why You Can’t Outrun Big Debt Forever)

Seeing Both Sides

First, the bond market knocks on Iceland’s door (see Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair article and his book Boomerang ), then Ireland's, then Greece's and now Italy's. And when the bond market comes to collect on the debt, leaders are overthrown – Papandreou in Greece, Berlusconi in Italy. Who’s next?

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates.

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