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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. She is also considering developing software to address these issues. million financing round for.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. ResortHunt.

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

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At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.

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The Impact of Community

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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. I'm an engineer.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. As for acquiring customers, so far he has used Internet marketing, and they have just started a partnership with a large reseller of restaurant management software, which is great.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries. InnovizeTech.

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