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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company. The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully.

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

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

ReadWriteStart

First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. On the other hand, it can be a perfectly fine owner-owned-and-operated business.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. SaaS transfers risk from the buyer to the seller.

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