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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. Misty is focusing on providing social media marketing services to real estate professionals, as well as building an online exchange for property owners and renters to find one another. You can register here. 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.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Then Tarini Kinkar discussed a media concept for marketing green products and services to Indian consumers. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

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She partnered with Rett Clevenger who at that time was an online media manager for a large e-commerce site, to launch Steals.com in April 2008. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. Her Webmaster was a former colleague who had left the company after her maternity leave.

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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. DealCurrent.com.

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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