ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. an e-commerce storefront building software for the Indian market. GrillGrate.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

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. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The go-to-market strategy has to be fine-tuned to make it more precise, but the basic premise of the business is validated. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Ankit has done a nice job of segmenting his market and focusing on two cities in New Jersey. I suggested offering a discounted service to the members of the investment clubs and going to market with them. We also had a discussion on market sizing.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Prioritize the markets. It’s wise to first broadly prioritize the top markets (i.e. First, brainstorm the top ten levers that will drive revenue, users, and/or usage for your business. This will force a ranking of the markets.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. The equine diagnostic equipment market adds up to over a billion dollars, and Siobhan wants a piece of it. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We discussed various segments for John's go-to-market strategy and pricing model options. Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. I like these two strategies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. has a large enough market that most U.S. ———-.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. Fortunately, there are numerous such companies in India. For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So I mostly kept my opinion within a small closed group and let my LPs know that K9’s strategy was to *not* change our strategy despite the pressures of the market. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Impact of Public Markets. link] pic.twitter.com/XdQXNlIOZq.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. I also advised Andrew to greatly tighten his product and go-to-market strategy. million in revenue. Note, I said, validated. Not just assumptions.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable. Healthcare e-Market. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Similarly, there are resilient, well-managed cryptocurrency companies that will be able to withstand drastic market fluctuations. Understanding the following factors can help you to mitigate long-term damage as the market naturally begins to self-correct. monetary system and offering an alternative to worldwide fiat currency.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you look at the numbers of super angels in Silicon Valley, they are even scarier. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. His firm invests in four. That's a 0.21% hit rate.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 11, 2018

I wrote about London and India observations in the last newsletter. In April 2017, I spoke at a tech conference in Silicon Valley and very few audience members had heard of “initial coin offerings” — I was asked to explain what they were. And what are we getting in return? Jalak Jobanputra, November 7, 2017.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Next, Priyanka Bhatnagar from Pune, India, pitched Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories , an e-commerce jewelry line. Priyanka needs to learn a lot about how to position an e-commerce business in a hyper-crowded jewelry market. That's like selling your prized assets for nothing in a flea market. Snowboard Wax Mobile Apps.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience. Magne Consulting.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. Happy Grasshopper. He is seeing excellent results.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. As for investment, one of the key elements missing for me is a concrete market sizing. IndiaCollegeSearch.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. My first post in this series described how businesses should start when considering expansion into Asia, which is home to some of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world. Nothing gets done otherwise. You also need true local expertise.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

While he has a good feel for the real estate investor market that is willing to pay $40 per month for the data service, he believes that banks may be willing to pay a lot more. Eddie has already invested $350,000 in building the solution, but has done an inadequate job of validating with customers. 10Screens.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. peerbackers. Ekjaa Foundation.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Validation also means positioning your business in a crowded market, finding the gap and establishing your differentiated, defensible market position. Jose's go-to-market strategy seems to follow a sequence-error that we often rectify in the 1M/1M methodology: build product first and then start talking to customers.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My key advice to him was to focus on acquiring customers, and getting a thorough positioning exercise done based on segmentation, competitive analysis and market sizing to identify a segment where competition is less active and the product is particularly effective. Bhupendra's questions were largely around competition. GotProduce.com.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

They market and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Social Contacts.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

Next, Tanuj More pitched Food ka Mood , a waiters-on-wheels-type-concept for the Indian corporate market. Sameer wants to work with hotels and create special deals for his audience and wanted to know if the Indian online travel market has room for a deal site. Food ka Mood. Stopwaitin.com. Out Of The Box.

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