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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 work with him on his inventory financing strategy. JCLABoutique.com. Vimagino.com. TheNextBigZing.com.

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

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Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. Photo by Alexander Mooij.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. We have to work on that!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

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As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. 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. He wants to penetrate the Indian market. Photo by peapodsquadmom. Discuss.

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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. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.