ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. I said, no. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Cortese Design Bags.

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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. All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing. And along the way, if necessary and appropriate, she can raise financing with a vastly more validated business. Photo by mjamesno.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. He is looking for financing for the show. And that is what I advised J.J.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. Photo by designkryt.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

And to engage effectively with them, we need to reach them through all those various channels. We have discussed the topic of technology product companies from India on my blog for many years now. 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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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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. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? 2) yes, join an incubator, (1) Read this [link].

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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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. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus.

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