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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the time on Q&A, which in itself was interesting. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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

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Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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There is also need for researchers at various institutes to collaborate around this data and models, all problems that point towards a cloud-based solution. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. How do you account for the charge backs to the business units or functional areas? Sequoia has financed them.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system. million financing round for. The business idea was not very well fleshed out, and needs a lot of work still.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. So was Steve Jobs.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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