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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

A few already launched but several others are in development. It has however, a clever marketing launch to build traction: a new user can reserve a username (capture interest), but requires 10 followers (or some hustle) to get an invite code. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Bootstrapped.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com. TheNextBigZing.com.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. My guest today is Lloyed Lobo.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Photo by tatlin.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? Next, Shirish Deodhar discussed InnovizeTech , an Indian company that has built software to capture how employees are spending their time in order to help manage and monitor productivity. Kir Devries. InnovizeTech.

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