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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Statisco Economic Analytics. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

Then we would write case studies about our success with them, do webinars with them, ask them to speak at our client summit, help them speak at industry events like Shop.org (especially when Web analytics and online word of mouth was so new it was seen as the next hot thing), help them win industry awards, and ask them to serve as references.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Reply Murali Krishna Devarakonda , on November 5, 2009 at 7:44 pm Said: Isn’t it amazing that entrepreneurs need to be told to go after their customers?

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.