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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through the past six years of intense research and thinking, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur's life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

until the late-stage go-to-market phase may be too late. Hiring talent and gathering customer feedback are even harder when teams are so physically far apart, and this separation can make it harder to build culture, forge partnerships, and raise capital. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.?

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute? How does he mitigate that?

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

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Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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