ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. I am very glad to see Girish and his team going after one such opportunity.

India 126

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

Cloud 117

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen. Marc Saltzman. Science Fair.

San Francisco 105

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models. million in revenue. Safarclick.

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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. That's like selling your prized assets for nothing in a flea market.

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ReadWriteStart

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.

Massachusetts 113

Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits.

India 116

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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. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable. Next, Kevin Fullerton, from Graham, Texas, pitched PartingOut , an online exchange for after-market auto parts that are beyond the top 10 to 20 that most parts dealers sell. Healthcare e-Market. Incubator photo from Geograph.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

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. Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. 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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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

First up, Siddhesh Joglekar from Mumbai, India, pitched Estate Lister , a real estate portal along the lines of Zillow, targeted to the Indian market. Siddhesh has already validated his business and is catering to home buyers, sellers, and brokers, generating revenues from advertising and sponsorships as well as brokerage revenue sharing.

Brazil 115

Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. If any technology hub can build a strong middle market public company ecosystem, it should be NYC. NYC’s tech sectors are out of favor with public markets?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. It also helps to keep track of the business sectors VCs are focusing on. Create an investment-grade business plan.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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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. could be your companion.

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