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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. In the future, the channel fee will, perhaps, go down. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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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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And in 1M/1M, we're trying to short circuit their process of learning and maturing into successful, seasoned entrepreneurs by teaching them things that they need to know, and augmenting their rolodex (or lack thereof) by putting ours to work on their behalf to help recruit customers, channel partners, and investors. Rangrut.com.

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Thanksgiving – THE Holiday for Entrepreneurs

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Let's channel the toughness of the Pilgrims when tackling the challenges of our modern day. As for language, only me with my thick Massachusetts accent spoke anything but perfect English. What a story. To my right, an African-American girl and her father were engrossed in a demonstration of the Nissan Leaf electric car.

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Solution for E-commerce Vendors.

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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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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. While Airbnb also allows professional property managers to list their rentals, a majority of its 200,000 listings are by people renting out their primary homes, the company says. The company is applying that principle in the U.S.