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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

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During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. I met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Photo by nazreth. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Then Tarini Kinkar discussed a media concept for marketing green products and services to Indian consumers. 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: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. You can register here. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade

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While on this topic, I want to particularly emphasize the social media advertising trend, and my observation that the infrastructure to measure, analyze, optimize, and target is really wide open, and I'd like to hear from entrepreneurs working on the various nuances of that particular problem. Next, we had two very interesting entrepreneurs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

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Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. CustomerDiscovery.