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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. 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: Find High Velocity Channels

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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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

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And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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