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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. Discuss.

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

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6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible. Mava Consulting.

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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. As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs , To Investors , and To The Media. Qualitas is trying to close various gaps related to imaging in the industrial automation space, and has use cases in a variety of areas from bottling to labeling, and across verticals such as automotive to pharmaceuticals.

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

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In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. Announce one or two $100,000 prizes that only those entrepreneurs who have gone through and completed at least 60 hours of 1M/1M curriculum would be eligible for.