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21 Entrepreneurs Share Views on Whether Leaders are Born or Made

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7- Made Photo Credit: Fiona Brown As a business owner and personal development and leadership coach of 16 years, my response would be that leaders are made. I have witnessed many women in a career women's leadership development program I work in, grow to become outstanding leaders. Thanks to Greg Bull, iV-Leadership.com ! #7-

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. There is one problem with the strategy, though. Cash needs to come into the business.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. Toward that end, they have created two products. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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Undifferentiated products are hard to generate excitement and traction around in the highly crowded web, and I suggested they look at DeNovo which sells highly differentiated, limited edition jewelry as a good example of what good merchandising looks like. She needs to worry about business generation, not scaling. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Happy Grasshopper. Photo by svilen001. Discuss.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

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Validation also means positioning your business in a crowded market, finding the gap and establishing your differentiated, defensible market position. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

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Chetan has expertise in fragrance development and the company is in a turnaround situation. The discussion centered on where in the Indian market could Fragochem sell its fragrances with less competition, reasonably good margins and adequate differentiation. Convincing them to pay him for consulting will be an uphill battle.