ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. She has founded three companies, writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy , and runs the 1M/1M initiative. PowerStores.in.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. 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. I said, no. Discuss.

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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. The business is already profitable with $2.9 million in revenue. Photo by nosheep.

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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. Photo by ilco.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Once there is critical mass, lots of business can, indeed, happen. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing? If there is friends and family money available to you, how far can that take you?

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JULY 28, 2011

It is currently evaluating options and strategies for growth and the possibility of additional financing. The business model Adarsh is proposing is a per lead compensation structure, which seems perfectly reasonable. However, the business is at a pure concept stage and most of the details are yet to be fleshed out.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Gnosis India.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. On the other hand, it can be a perfectly fine owner-owned-and-operated business. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly. 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. Discuss.

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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. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Massachusetts.

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