ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

While the basic premise is compelling, and I am very interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in this area, the business model is flawed. You can select the business you like best of those discussed through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page. and entrepreneurship development, which also yielded a very animated discussion.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. First up today was Yogesh Sharma presenting Rangrut.com , a business that connects employers with learning institutions and on-campus students to fill job openings. The crux of the discussion revolved around segmentation and business models.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. The Free Rider Problem. Also, Michaeline Daboul, from New Hampshire, pitched MMIS Inc. , Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. You can also listen to the recording of today's roundtable here and select the business you like best through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. PowerStores.in.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kiran is trying to bring transparency to the industry that currently has some awkward behavior like admission in exchange for donations!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? Next comes the topic of angels.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Soren Harrison, from Boston, Massachusetts, presented SolSolution , a solar electricity venture whereby his company places solar panels on the roofs of schools, generates electricity, sells it to the schools, as well as back to the grid, and takes advantage of the federal rebates, incentives, etc. SolSolution. Who funds the solar panels?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well. Don't miss it!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I left the UK joining a newly formed startup, Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as one of the founding scientists. Looking at the UK, I saw a hotbed of startup activity, especially among companies looking to exploit the latest developments in synthetic biology. And this is what has drawn me back.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Despite its success and growth as a partnership, Party Pieces has maintained its family business model and Carole continues to be involved in the sourcing and developing of new party products. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

The business is very different in London, and my feedback was that investors want a repeatable business model. For that to happen, he needs to show investors how his India model scales, without introducing a random London factor in the business. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. My question was around the size of the catalog that can be pulled together that will render affiliate commissions and will meet quality standards of this business. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

In our Business Incubator series of interviews, we have invited many leaders from the industry to come share their best practices and challenges with us. We have also facilitated open discussions on Why Do Business Incubators Fail and Incubator Business Models , which turned out to be animated, active and extremely constructive discussions.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 18, 2013

The brouhaha has come about because economists from the University of Massachusetts have repeated their analysis using the same data but different weightings and found that the median growth at highly indebted economies was much higher. The problem is that there isn’t much data to go on and the data quality itself is questionable.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

And it also applies to many different parts of the United States where startup activity is still a relatively small portion of economic development. The business model Adarsh is proposing is a per lead compensation structure, which seems perfectly reasonable. About Sramana Mitra. Incubator photo from Geograph. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Nir is contemplating various different business models and channel options, all the way from Freemium B-to-C to white labeling the solution for universities and colleges. I advised him to focus on the for-profit colleges and business schools in India and sell them a white label solution, hence a B-to-B business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

There are over 60,000 designers working in Massachusetts alone — the state is well past the national average when it comes to professional designers. As you can probably imagine, we have many obstacles to overcome — some normal startup challenges, and some challenges unique to our business model and approach.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One middle ground is to keep a job and develop a freemium site on the side, so that you still have your paycheck to pay the bills. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. You can find more details and register here. Hope to see you there! Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. 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. About Sramana Mitra.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

A notable deal in the software vertical includes Israel-Massachusetts-based uTest ( CEO interview on VC Cafe ), who landed $13 million from Scale Venture Partners and others. uTest created a crowdsourced software testing marketplace that uses a “Pay per Bug&# business model. The average early stage round was $6.7

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