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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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Go Vertical

Seeing Both Sides

In that context, I enjoyed USV's Christina Cacioppo's blog post, What Comes Next , where she summarized a few trends that are coming out of some of the start up incubators. Yet, in my own work with various incubators, I am often struck by the lack of vertical focus. When I heard about this weekend's $3.4 Health care.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. He is seeing excellent results. Following a guerrilla p.r.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

ReadWriteStart

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly has a lot of gaps in her customer acquisition strategy, as well as positioning, and she is seeing customers from commercial and residential clients. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. Accelerator programs are becoming more and more vertical and pulling together corporate and institutional support that provides investment, purchasing power, and validation.

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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs. May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). We’re a company that builds proprietary technology but puts people first, every step of the way.