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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

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Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. Client work serves as an additional source of revenue to form new startups.

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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.

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Open Positions at the ATI

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The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#.

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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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Go Vertical

Seeing Both Sides

In that context, I enjoyed USV's Christina Cacioppo's blog post, What Comes Next , where she summarized a few trends that are coming out of some of the start up incubators. Yet, in my own work with various incubators, I am often struck by the lack of vertical focus. When I heard about this weekend's $3.4 Health care.

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

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John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. So, effectively, at the cost of one full-time sales rep, they can access coverage in four different regions.

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