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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. Prashant is focusing his market validation process on mid-market companies - 2-3 years old, and somewhat stable. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. NameYourRentNow.com.

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

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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.

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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. Jimmy has already managed the most complex part of the bootstrapping phase with very little outside investment. GotProduce.com.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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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.

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

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We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. You can also use my blog to brainstorm. Discuss.