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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn - Why Not Affiliates?

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Deborah has interest from Whole Foods and some other grocery stores to build such greenhouses near their distribution centers. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce. Photo by ilco. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

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First up, Joel Korpi from Austin, Texas, pitched Rockify , a platform for transforming video content into multiple device friendly formats, process payments and help content producers distribute and monetize content more widely. It is, however, too early for financing. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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

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At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. 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. We have to work on that!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic. Discuss.

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

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These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy.