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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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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. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

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and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.