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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

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But don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re already in the midst of a deadly global epidemic. From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. At least 2.8

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. My hunch is that the segmentation is incorrect and that class of companies will not respond to his value proposition.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. It turns out a large number of consumers out there do not have dental insurance, so these special offers, reviews and ratings matter to them. PTA Portals.

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

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In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

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An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. Made my job infinitely easier, I must say.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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Qualitas is trying to close various gaps related to imaging in the industrial automation space, and has use cases in a variety of areas from bottling to labeling, and across verticals such as automotive to pharmaceuticals. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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