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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

Satya is evaluating various go-to-market models such as franchising, and I advised him to focus on direct selling to major builders and working with industry value-added resellers (VARs) that already operate in the smart home segment in India. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. For Meebo 1.3%

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. It’s been popular recently to challenge those studying the humanities, like English or History majors, for their apparent lack of employability in an increasingly tech-focused job market; yet tech is in dire need of humanities majors in a number of roles.

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An SEO Crash Course For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Not only will unclear navigation compromise your SEO rankings, it will also cost you conversions when visitors find your website. A robust group of marketing and search-news websites will keep you even more in tune with SEO. SearchEngineWatch.com is a leading reporter on search-engine news, as well as overall digital marketing.

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5 Things to Consider When Opening a Car Dealership

Up and Running

You must also consider other aspects such as your local market, whether to offer new and/or used cars, what startup expenses you will be facing, and how to develop a solid business plan. A market and SWOT analysis. How you will market your business. What makes a state a good place to open a dealership? A business structure.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. She said, “Dad, one of the great things you and Mom did was never tell us how much things cost.” Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. As for investment, one of the key elements missing for me is a concrete market sizing.

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