Remove Bootstrapping Remove Community Remove Massachusetts Remove Vertical
article thumbnail

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

ReadWriteStart

I offered to help him market his services through 1M/1M, since his target customer base overlaps rather nicely with the 1M/1M community. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing.

Vertical 115
article thumbnail

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

ReadWriteStart

The machines are $250,000 each, and as most dentists cannot afford them Benson wants to create Cone Beam imaging centers to be used by 20-30 dentists per community. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Startup 113
article thumbnail

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

To those in our eco-system who are facing this problem around the globe, I have the following suggestion: Instead of giving $100,000 to one startup, give $1,000 each to 100 startups, and put a larger number of entrepreneurs in your community through 1M/1M. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase.