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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. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Yelp, ChowHound, and even Zagat come to mind as other channels worth exploring.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

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

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a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through the past six years of intense research and thinking, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur's life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. Invention Labs.

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Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

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In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

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Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. It works well with other fraud detection systems like FICA.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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