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

MAY 5, 2011

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Siddhesh has already validated his business and is catering to home buyers, sellers, and brokers, generating revenues from advertising and sponsorships as well as brokerage revenue sharing. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. In the past 100 days since its launch, Freshdesk has recruited 100 paying customers.

Silicon Valley 118

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. CustomerDiscovery. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers. Rajan, however, needs to negotiate his early customers better.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

The idea is interesting, but needs positioning and validation with the right set of target customers. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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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.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. SurgeForth has since graduated to paying customers, and is making good progress. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

Cloud 117

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive. Discuss.

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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. million in revenue. Brainscape.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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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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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The fleet of cars in Getaround has grown to 10,000 from 1,500 a year ago, and suburban customers make up about a quarter of its bookings. Airbnb has booked about 10 million nights since it was founded four years ago, and the average customer age has risen to 35. People are telling their parents," says CEO Brian Chesky.

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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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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. 5% conversion rate resulted in more than $15,000 in revenue.

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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. Surprisingly, this eastern city has some very good incubators, and its startup companies are generating a lot of revenue. But what about your HQ?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2016

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Segment the market to find under-satisfied customers.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA.

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2020

It also left much of the underwriting criteria up to the banks themselves, who favored other customers. EforAll is up and running in 9 communities in Massachusetts and Colorado and, to date, they’ve supported entrepreneurs in starting almost 350 businesses, 83% of which continue to be actively pursued by their founders.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 Most of the customer service staff is able to work from home for 30 hours a week. Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual incubator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection.

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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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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. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. In 1M/1M premium, we do invest in certain companies on a revenue sharing basis and create channel partnerships with one or more of our partners. I said, no.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Back to Top « Customer Service. Customer Center. See a sample reprint in PDF format. California.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

The site has 11 million page views a month, and Jeu expects 2011 revenues to be about $250k. The revenue models need to be revisited, and the customer acquisition strategy as well. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

India 115

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites. Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has 100 trial customers at the moment, and is looking to figure out exactly what his company positioning is going to be. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. If possible, of course.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. In Massachusetts for example, there are 82,007 millionaires. Others took several years, but they all ended up with those things.

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Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

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. The 1M/1M affiliate program will create additional revenues for some, and for some, this could be their first decent revenue option. efforts to get them.

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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.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. A move allows the business to get close to the customer, learn their pain points, and adapt accordingly. headquarters, in Massachusetts, to immerse the team in the American market. “At

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