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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. But in the end, I believe, we have arrived at a better place as an industry where Indian entrepreneurs are thinking beyond outsourcing. IRTEX: Indian Road Transportation Exchange.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. GrillGrate.

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JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. The same applies to Malaysia, where our partner, the MAD Incubator, is in search of 10 good deals to put through the 1M/1M program. Incubator photo from Geograph. Discuss.

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JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. The 1M/1M team has invested significant resources to engage with and understand the challenges of the Incubator industry around the globe. Discuss.

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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. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. The Free Rider Problem. Discuss.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

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 started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Soren's answer is ambiguous, even though his value proposition and business model are relatively clear and well thought through. You can't tell what the company does.

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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. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. LetsGiftIt. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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MAY 3, 2011

At last week's roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitching. One recurring theme that kept coming up is that entrepreneurs are finding guerrilla p.r. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They make a lot of money, and nothing in Anuj's business model convinced me that these people have any interest or incentive to go around teaching, especially in rural India. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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