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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. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. Discuss.

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

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In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing. In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. Photo by yirsh.

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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.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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Qualitas is trying to close various gaps related to imaging in the industrial automation space, and has use cases in a variety of areas from bottling to labeling, and across verticals such as automotive to pharmaceuticals. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.