ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Test channel and demand creation activities in the U.S. Outside the U.S.

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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. million in revenue. Discuss.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Everyone on my team is obsessed with the products, so it’s been fun managing the social media channels. So for this year we try increase our revenue and launch a social campaign to get our customers to be more involved. 16 – New Program. So we created our smarTraveler VIP program, which rewards our repeat customers.

Los Angeles 48

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It is much better to grow organically with revenue. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had the program split into three segments. 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.

Silicon Valley 113

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. and a systematic affiliate marketing program.

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San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. During the last few months, Transformify has seen a 500% increase in demand in India alone.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. Over the upcoming months, the program will become much, much richer.

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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. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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. Also, Kimbra Orr with Kimbra Studios presented an interesting business selling photo jewelry that is already at $750k revenue.

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PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Nitie is working with dentists to validate her assumptions about the service, and she is a member of the 1M/1M premium program. Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Happy Grasshopper. Social Pulse.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. IDES Technologies. If possible, of course. Photo by mjamesno.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. It might be a much better alignment of skills. How does he mitigate that? Photo by designkryt.

India 115

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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. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

Vertical 115

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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.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I streamlined my program to include family members as support systems to help people truly thrive. This position has made my program instantly successful since it’s the only one of its kind that people know about. Also, for every belt sold, $1 goes to programs supporting combat-wounded veterans. Image Credit: Brent Kraus.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Our offshore development team is in India and the result has been excellent because we followed a disciplined process in both selection and ongoing development.

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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. They will also share how they are using the 1M/1M program in that journey. Estate Lister. He wants to penetrate the Indian market.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

Other channels also enjoy unparalleled traction with their niche focus and audience. Choose your channels. Apart from the above two, choosing rest of the channels depend largely on the type of app and target audience. People resort to Twitter to reach the wider audience with trending small byte size tweets.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This I Believe was one of my favorite NPR programs. My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The last people to get laid off in a company are the ones closest to creating revenue. I'm grateful for the opportunity I have.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Hence, customer support representatives, account managers and all other remote workers who are required to work on a predefined schedule are likely to be classified as ‘’employees’’ Attending regular team calls, participating in training programs, etc. No revenue at all. Looks great, isn’t it?

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Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

1M/1M Program has a bold mission. One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? Next story. Previous story. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Daily Dose.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The reinforcement of his example, in hours of darkness, has offered me light and direction to take on a big, bold idea: restructuring capitalism through the 1M/1M program. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor launched a new incentive to encourage and assist Israeli companies interested in trading in China and India. A company that is selected for the program can receive up to 700,000 shekels a year for three years. “ Ophir has a history of impressive revenue growth.

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China Cofounder India 90

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

I’m originally from New Delhi, India and have lived in the US for 10+ years now. I write for the Global Healing Exchange and other online magazines and I recently won and award in India at the Women’s Economic Forum for my Innovation for Health and Wellness. What if there was revenue to fund scaling and product development?

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Hungary Software Review Cofounder 98

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In India or Japan or the United States? Do the big gigantic numbers imply that your business should use these social media channels? Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. Humans, check. But, what about businesses?

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