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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

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In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. We also did some segmentation work and related exploration of relevant channels. MyDataOrganizer.

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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 fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting. GrillGrate. JCLABoutique.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues. It's a very impressive concept, to say the least! Invention Labs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discussed guerilla p.r., Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

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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. Photo by nosheep.

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Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

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Such OEM deals may cost him 50% of his product revenue, but would be the fastest way to reach a large number of customers, nonetheless. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

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