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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

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. 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. MapWide.com.

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Review: Transformify Recruitment CRM vs Naukri.com

Transformify

In India, people are used to searching for jobs using popular job portals like Naukri.com, FreshersWorld, etc. Each job post is automatically indexed by 50+ job boards worldwide and shared via the social media channels to attract the right candidates actively looking for a job. Loaded with: (i) Job board/ Job Marketplace. (ii)

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable?

ReadWriteStart

Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

Binaize (Bangalore, India) Nikhil Jois, CEO Binaize is a network intelligence software product for Industrial IoT that helps minimize machine downtime and increase the operational efficiency of industrial control systems. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Creating that kind of systematic buzz is an excellent social media marketing strategy as well. He is seeing excellent results.