ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Please try to understand why.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JCLABoutique.com.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Sequoia has financed them. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. Next page: Today's Pitches.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Jeff has managed to keep his burn rate very low thus far, and a slow and steady crafting of the business is working nicely. The business is already profitable with $2.9 million in revenue.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Trading and finance. You will learn information management, how to organize information, how to put importance on certain parts of it, and how to share this information in the most effective way. Massachusetts, Boston. This is where statistics come into play and make a role for a statistician career. California, San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Then Jimmy Hendricks presented DealCurrent.com , a white label platform for media companies to manage daily deal advertising on behalf of brands. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. Jay does not have that yet. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. I said, no. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Cortese Design Bags.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 29, 2018

You don’t need a huge company, lots of employees, or anyone but yourself (except in Massachusetts, where you need to have two owners). Managing your LLC. There are two different ways you can choose to manage your LLC: Member management. In this method, the members are the ones actually doing the hands-on management.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. That would be the equipment manufacturers like 3M. Qualitas Technologies.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gnosis India.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. 2:20] What were some of the challenges along the way? [3:33]

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Finally, I am queasy about the assumption that retailers will fulfill their part on the merchandising and logistics side adequately, because other than catalog companies, most retailers do not have the infrastructure to service consumer orders - packing, shipping, inventory management. Trinity Business Solutions.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

First up, Alvin Yuen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, presented ISA Innovation , a company providing a hosted IT asset and inventory management solution. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

“The chief business of the American people is business.” - Calvin Coolidge, 1925 “I went back to Ohio / But my city was gone” - The Pretenders, 1984 My 1980’s childhood growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts was a blessing that perhaps I never fully appreciated until having sons of my own, now ages 9 and 10, and especially so through the darkness and (..)

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. In speaking with Lokesh and discussing his and his colleague's backgrounds, I sensed that this is a group trying to do management consulting with little or no background. We have to work on that! Financial Consulting Service.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

Over the past 30 years, Brian has held senior executive software development and management roles in a number of industries/technology sectors including cloud computing, supply chain, healthcare, finance, telecommunications and utilities. The pilot started in Massachusetts and resulted in hiring three full-time employees.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

M&A and Finance. Senior Management. Publishing Management. Finance/Accounting. • Vendors: List/Manage Your Company. -->. Executive Management. Massachusetts. Destination Management Companies. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media. First Name.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Yesterday, I analyzed the Massachusetts IPO ecosystem. Everyday Health almost did, but then pulled out and raised a private round of financing instead. Then, the CEOs of these companies will need to heed the warning of many wise men and women before them who know that an IPO is not an exit, it’s a financing event. Foursquare.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. These limited partners add to the available capital in the state and provide funding for capital managers. Austin Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences. » More.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. headquarters, in Massachusetts, to immerse the team in the American market. “At and have gained management experience at large organizations such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

Senthil is doing a small business marketing solution that combines loyalty programs with email marketing and campaign management. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Founded in 1999, AeroScout’s products are used in hospitals to track patients and blood products, such as organs; to manage and monitor equipment in universities; and to keep tabs on products throughout the manufacturing process. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts with offices worldwide. Burrill already manages $1.5

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2011

What’s more, it’s not only finances that have taken a hit — morale is suffering, too. For example, I always wrote about several store managers in our ‘Managers of the Month’ newsletter. Later, I included assistant managers, store supervisors, store salespeople, and our drivers in this letter of champions as well.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The round, which was participated in by Growth Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Accolade Partners, among others, brings the company’s total financing to date to $68.5 The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems. Source: The Next Web ]. - November 29, 2012.

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