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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. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. TheNextBigZing.com.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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Globally, this is a much larger number. But once a set of reference customers are in place, this business definitely needs a telesales channel, not a direct, feet-on-the-street sales force. Next Pascal Nicolas presented SalesVu , a cloud based sales management tool for restaurants interested in tracking the value of their promotions.

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Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

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First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. And, as we brainstormed with today's audience, they suggested other excellent use cases, including one for product managers to discuss feature-function priorities with customers and prospects. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. I thought that was brilliant. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs - Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance

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First, Ankit Duggal from Clifton, New Jersey, pitched RER LLC , a firm that currently manages a real estate investment fund and is working on an investment advisory service catering to real estate investors - individuals and small businesses. In addition, I also suggested testing the wealth manager market.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model

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a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. Desi Sauda. Discuss.