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

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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. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. GrillGrate.

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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. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes. Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. We do not and will not have any particular focus on non profits that are dependent upon funding from charities.

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