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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. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy. Ledface is not ready for financing, even though that was one of their first questions. Discuss.

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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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. JCLABoutique.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. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, What makes 1M/1M unique? iFood.tv.

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

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This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce. She, however, has framed the business model as a franchise, whereas in my opinion, this is a technology licensing and services business. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. Photo by ilco.

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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: 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.