Bootstrapping, Global, Marketing and Massachusetts

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

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. 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.

India

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur

The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

Duct Tape Marketing

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Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Massachusetts Distribution Networking

Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched.

India

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping

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

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. The equine diagnostic equipment market adds up to over a billion dollars, and Siobhan wants a piece of it.

Valuation

Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

Cloud

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Prashant is focusing his market validation process on mid-market companies - 2-3 years old, and somewhat stable. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Discuss.

North Carolina

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

ShopTranslated is a mass-market online retailer of plus-sized women's clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. And we already know that this is a very large market from working with La Grande Dame. First, if you are building a business catering to the local market (e.g. Or, bootstrap longer.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Malaysia India China

Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., Shirish had a pricing model question, as well as a set of go-to-market and sales strategy questions. I advised him to avoid spending money to sell to the US and UK markets for the next year. Very encouraging!

Cloud

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide.

India

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage

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

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years. Read Creative Bootstrapping to a $350 Million Exit.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

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. on a global scale. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. CrowdEngineering.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley

Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak.

Channel

Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley

Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. I advised them to do a thorough segmentation and competitive positioning for the healthcare practice management system market. IDES Technologies.

Partner

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Venture Capital

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley.

Malaysia

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

We had an extensive discussion on segmentation, TAM, competitive analysis, and go-to-market strategy, and I advised Ajay to do further analysis on specific topics. Raghava Kashyapa then discussed Qualitas Technologies , a system integration company in India focused on the industrial automation market. Qualitas Technologies.

Startup

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

New Global Markets. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers. Israeli flag photo by Ron Almog.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur India Intellectual Property

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

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

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." Food ka Mood. Then Sameer Patil discussed TravDe.com , which offers steep discounts on hotels.

Networking

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Whatever background they have is more suited to IT consulting, and I suggested that they become a value-added-reseller of a major card technology vendor and represent them in the South Asian market. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

India

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

My read on the business is that it needs to go to market in a B-to-B mode, expanding the scope of gift registries on major sites like Macy's and Crate & Barrel. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. I also advised Andrew to greatly tighten his product and go-to-market strategy. Note, I said, validated.

Dilution

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

Marketing

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

Marketing

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor

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

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. could be your companion.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

It is that kind of precision that will drive a focused go-to-market strategy. The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase.

San Jose

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington

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

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

Vertical

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. Business analytics has, of course, been around for a couple of decades, and there are numerous vendors in the market.

Incubator

Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur

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