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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

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Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Igor's focus is large retailers, and he has had conversations with a couple of them in the UK. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Doesn't Retek have anything in that product category?

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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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. Jimmy has already managed the most complex part of the bootstrapping phase with very little outside investment.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. California. Connecticut. Mississippi.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

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The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. Dan wanted to know how to increase the conversion. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

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One very interesting point in the conversation was when Taha said he was surprised that job/career is the most popular category so far. I suggest he offers a service, like SEO marketing, that is related to his venture to continue to bootstrap this business. I recommend he picks three categories to focus on.

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

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an innovative concept for capturing stray conversations heard in random places and sharing those on Facebook and Twitter. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

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It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. They are looking for a validated model for each of the following issues: scalable customer acquisition, freemium conversion rate, and a pricing model for the premium product. SOCO Games. Then Jeff Bogensberger pitched SOCO Games , the maker of a Facebook game called Earth 2.0.

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