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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. 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.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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At the same time, we also have seen several examples of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their e-commerce companies without any external financing until much later in the game. Or, bootstrap longer. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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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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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

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At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. PerBlue develops and markets its own game, and today, is at about a $35,000-$40,000 per-month run rate from 200,000 users. Read Creative Bootstrapping to a $350 Million Exit. Read EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So, in Gio's situation, it is clear to me that he is able to get customers to buy.

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