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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. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Meebo’s current focus is US market.&#.

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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. GeoInvenio. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. 8-Provide high-quality personalized marketing. Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Connecticut. Connecticut. Marketing Services. » More. » More.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

I explained that the goal of the Innovation Corps was to bridge what the NSF calls the “ditch of death” – the gap between when NSF research funding runs out and when a team is credible enough (with enough customer and market knowledge) to raise private capital or license/partner with existing companies. Lessons Learned.

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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.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.