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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. JCLABoutique.com. Jeanne's positioning needs a lot of work. Vimagino.com.

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

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Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

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Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

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I have advised her to course-correct and validate with the potential customers how much they are willing to pay and in what framework. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories. Photo by ilco. Discuss.

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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. While many entrepreneurs find it difficult to answer all the questions in the CYS framework, I strongly recommend that you address the following items in your roundtable pitch at the minimum: A validated customer value proposition.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

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As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. We discussed all sorts of options, and I provided a basic framework to make the business decisions that are critical at this point. Ledface is not ready for financing, even though that was one of their first questions. Photo by peapodsquadmom.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

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I advised him to get a couple of banks to finance the development of his solution as service projects, with the understanding that he will build a product out of them. Ido Volff from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched Sleeve , a framework for social learning that he is testing at three Israeli colleges and universities. Discuss.