ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. Well, I was once an amateur.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Boston, Massachusetts. Small business partnerships are key to creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. 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. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

The first was our usual entrepreneur strategy discussion. In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. To train a channel, understanding the use cases is crucial.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. In 1M/1M premium, we do invest in certain companies on a revenue sharing basis and create channel partnerships with one or more of our partners. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. And the money is nice, too."

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing. Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. Another entrepreneur from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Darren Panag with Convep Mobilogy , pitched AppsAsia, a mobile platform for business apps on various mobile devices such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and so on. ISA Innovation. A mistake, in my opinion.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? And to engage effectively with them, we need to reach them through all those various channels. Social Contacts.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible. Mava Consulting.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington. We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We discussed marketing, advertising and direct marketing agencies as being the best channel partners for him. More to come from entrepreneurs in Africa I'm sure. It is clear to me, after doing these coaching sessions for over two years, that entrepreneurs need a lot more training on positioning and go-to-market.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. At this point, he can grow organically and leverage channel partners and other creative modes of non-equity financing and preserve equity as much as possible. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. Here I had an entrepreneur telling me with a straight face that he was leaving the most basic business decisions for the investors to make.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. Rick is looking at Medi-Code as an investment opportunity from his angel group, and Rohit is the entrepreneur. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs , To Investors , and To The Media. It is clear to me, after doing these coaching sessions for over two years, that entrepreneurs need a lot more training on positioning and go-to-market.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

How entrepreneurs gather, understand and use customer feedback to improve their products was the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. Doing customer discovery isn’t the same as running a focus group. Tina Fitch.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents.

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ReadWriteStart

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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

Marketing 52

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

How entrepreneurs gather, understand and use customer feedback to improve their products was the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Alice graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. Doing customer discovery isn’t the same as running a focus group. Tina Fitch.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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