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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. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. You can register here.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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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. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. million financing round for. Discuss.

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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. She seems to have good relationships in the blog and media world for the lifestyle products category, and I thought that she should first harness those before spending money on the performance marketing services like Linkshare. Photo by lco.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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Globally, this is a much larger number. With a growing variety of online coupons and social media promotions available, Pascal is looking to bridge the gap between the online world and the often dated marketing approaches of physical restaurants. All first-time entrepreneurs, arguably, are amateurs. Photo by tatlin.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

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Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay.

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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. Raghava Kashyapa then discussed Qualitas Technologies , a system integration company in India focused on the industrial automation market. Qualitas Technologies. Photo by svilen001.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

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I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." The Mumbai roundtable was extremely interactive and fun.