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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

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During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable. Photo by 7rains. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Vimagino.com.

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

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The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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I liked this venture very much and see the basic framework of using the Indian cost structure to provide SaaS products that are competitive in terms of performance and functionality at drastically lower prices as a massive opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs to go after. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn - Why Not Affiliates?

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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

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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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