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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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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. Qualitas Technologies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's just not worth it. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

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We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. could be your companion. Discuss.