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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. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. on a global scale.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Globally, this is a much larger number. But once a set of reference customers are in place, this business definitely needs a telesales channel, not a direct, feet-on-the-street sales force. Please try to understand why.

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Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

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As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. You can bootstrap it. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. You can bootstrap it. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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