ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Socioclean already has about 25,000 users, and has good interest from a dozen colleges and universities who want to offer white label solutions through their career development offices. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. Photo by nazreth.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

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. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. She is also considering developing software to address these issues.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. and entrepreneurship development, which also yielded a very animated discussion. The value proposition is well articulated, validated, and very clean. Quantum Arc.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Rangrut.com.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

growth to other developed countries, “It isn’t difficult to be the least dirty shirt in the hamper these days.” As The Economist put it, comparing U.S. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google. Healthcare Reform. Yes, really.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. Report Bee has two paying customers, and we discussed segmentation issues around where to focus for the early market penetration strategy. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S., Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

When customers enter that fence, you’re able to market to them and send them messages. Not only is this convenient for you as a business owner, but it’s also very convenient and helpful for customers. Think about your industry and what could help your customers and your business at the same time. Who is your competition?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. We have done that in 1M/1M. and each book costs $375 retail. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

It can also show you how to best develop and support individual team members. Every day, your employees do a lot of “little” things that keep your company running smoothly and customers coming back: Refilling the copier with paper when it’s empty. Smiling at customers after each transaction. I noticed what you did.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Several states already have their HIX up and running and others are poised to follow soon; Massachusetts Connector , the Utah Health Exchange , and New York’s HealthPass are operational and businesses can use those today. In the meantime there are also several private exchanges that operate in much the same way. Kaplan and David P.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Then Praful Thachery pitched Delyver Retail Network , a home delivery solution through which Praful is already delivering food, flowers and a variety of other products and services (like dry cleaning) to over 5,000 customers in Bangalore. The value proposition is sound. Saagam.com. Next Kiran Reddy presented Saagam.com. Photo by barunpatro.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. At last week's roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitching. Guerrilla p.r.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 21, 2023

EMP’s electricity reliability research focuses on developing and enhancing reliability data, metrics, trends, and economics; improving the understanding of the relationship between power system reliability and customer benefits; and promoting applications of reliability-value-based planning.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For these reasons, more and more companies are choosing to stay online and help their customers and clients remotely. Boston, Massachusetts. As the city has suffered from economic lows in its history, it has now developed a very self-sufficient culture. But what about your HQ? What better for a thriving startup scene?!

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. From employees to customers to investors, and entrepreneur has countless stakeholders depending on them at all times. 6- Creative freedom to develop new areas. 1- Doing the best I can every day.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Friends into customers? Customers into salespeople? Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. ” [Tweet It!]. Strangers into friends? Image Source.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

Last year Jeff and a bunch of his friends in Massachusetts created the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence pilot program. So when I started seeing what Jeff was doing in Massachusetts, I started working on a similar approach in Colorado with Craig Montuori, and Chris Nicholson of Venture Politics.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Children of Indian or French parents raised by Mexican nannies are subject to tremendous clashes of culture, not to mention language development challenges. This is a bias that both nature and society have developed from the stone ages. Most of the customer service staff is able to work from home for 30 hours a week.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I left the UK joining a newly formed startup, Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as one of the founding scientists. Looking at the UK, I saw a hotbed of startup activity, especially among companies looking to exploit the latest developments in synthetic biology. And this is what has drawn me back. Lessons Learned.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I reminded him that commercial open source is a classic freemium model, where the free software comes with paid customer support and training. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So, which one are you, I asked. SolSolution. Photo by svilen001.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option. Being able to study such a vast and intelligent subject gives students the opportunity to really develop their critical thinking skills and logical thinking. Massachusetts, Boston. Product testing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. In February, he had about 200 customers. Happy Grasshopper has incredible testimonials and a host of satisfied customers who are now helping build word of mouth buzz. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Eddie has already invested $350,000 in building the solution, but has done an inadequate job of validating with customers. I pointed him to specific modules within the 1M/1M curriculum to beef up his customer acquisition strategy, Value Proposition and Positioning description, etc. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study. As a market entry strategy, Ashwin proposed taking LinkedIn customers and setting up personal profiles for them, an idea that did not sound convincing to me at all. He also has raised one round of seed funding and is ready for another.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

Next, we went to a discussion on a scenario that a 1M/1M premium company is facing where they offer an innovative customer support solution to large enterprises like Telecom and Consumer Electronics players and are going to market through a channel partner in the U.S. To train a channel, understanding the use cases is crucial. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Some recent trend posts on my blog include There's a Trend To Spot In Groupon's Growth Rate , Customer Service and the Social Web , SaaS Enabled BPO and Near-shoring and U.S. Well, we have a well-developed affiliate program , and I encouraged him to join. During this week's roundtable, I spotted yet another trend. efforts to get them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. Boost sales and engage customers all from one powerful platform. Capture leads.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

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. Brainscape. The answer to the question is neither.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richard is currently charging $1.99 I said, no. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. I advised Manivel to reposition his company to cater to institutes that want to develop private funding exchanges and conduct a thorough customer validation process based on that assumption. Subscription Carpool Service. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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