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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. This is an interesting trend we're seeing as we connect with incubators around the world.

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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. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. Incubate non-Yalies. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research.

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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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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. yahoo, amazon, ebay, paypal – were all very different from what they are today – but they were first movers and as such were able to dominate their markets.