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 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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. However, only the market can tell to what extent those assumptions will hold true. 3gSimplified.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. But there's also a real lack of understanding of what it takes to bring a venture to market. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. Kolkata and Hyderabad are behind.

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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 asked her to call up 50-100 from that list and ask for feedback from those customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2016

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Segment the market to find under-satisfied customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We discussed various segments for John's go-to-market strategy and pricing model options. Interesting technology, and I will be working with him to build a comprehensive go-to-market strategy as part of the premium program. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. I am very glad to see Girish and his team going after one such opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. Adarsh really needs to do some thorough competitive analysis and decide which market may have room for him to enter.

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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. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Why or why not? Discuss.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Airbnb, Zimride, RelayRides and others have embraced the fee-per-transaction model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

5% conversion rate resulted in more than $15,000 in revenue. Now, those numbers were released back in March, so it’s safe to assume revenue has increased since. Increase the market for your products, reach new customers you might not have otherwise. via Marketing Week). Not exactly. Yes, the industry is growing.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's the kind of pitch that makes your mind spin.

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Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors. Whole Foods Market. Wrigley Company.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 22, 2012

Moreover, campus as market, a theme explored frequently in my research and on this blog, is congruent with the rise of the food truck industrial complex (see previous blog entry). Tanaka on the newest rivalry on campus: College officials say running their own food trucks brings in more revenue for the universities.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable. Next, Kevin Fullerton, from Graham, Texas, pitched PartingOut , an online exchange for after-market auto parts that are beyond the top 10 to 20 that most parts dealers sell. Healthcare e-Market. Incubator photo from Geograph.

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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. Such OEM deals may cost him 50% of his product revenue, but would be the fastest way to reach a large number of customers, nonetheless. But for Cheryl, the problem is that she needs critical mass.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. For example, let's say an enterprise marketing organization hosts a large webinar using ON24 and generates 2,500 attendees. Happy Grasshopper. Very cool, indeed!

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

It is that kind of precision that will drive a focused go-to-market strategy. Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. I advised them to focus on parents of autistic children of a certain age band, say 5 to 7 years.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

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. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. Discuss.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. I advised them to do a thorough segmentation and competitive positioning for the healthcare practice management system market. IDES Technologies. Then Cristina Soviany presented IDES Technologies from Belgium. If possible, of course.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

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. In addition, I also suggested testing the wealth manager market. We also had a discussion on market sizing.

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Silicon Valley New Jersey Entrepreneur Massachusetts 113

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 has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Priyanka needs to learn a lot about how to position an e-commerce business in a hyper-crowded jewelry market. The market sizing of the business is full of assumptions that made me very uncomfortable, the chief of those being that over 40% of free members would convert to premium. Snowboard Wax Mobile Apps. Photo by ilco. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. Business analytics has, of course, been around for a couple of decades, and there are numerous vendors in the market. CricketWeekly. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience. My sense is the market is not as broad, and most small businesses do not hire very actively. So, while I find the concept intriguing, I'd still like to get a feel for the market sizing to gauge how big a company this would become.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

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. This strategy needs to be developed for ISA, and they have to pick a specific market to go after, rather than going global. Math-Quest.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Incubator San Jose Silicon Valley India 114

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I advised Amy and Michelle to sell their products wholesale to those same e-tailers who have top spot in the PPC search results and go to market through them. Also, Kimbra Orr with Kimbra Studios presented an interesting business selling photo jewelry that is already at $750k revenue. Kimbra Studios. Photo by ant_c54. Discuss.

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PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

As a market entry strategy, Ashwin proposed taking LinkedIn customers and setting up personal profiles for them, an idea that did not sound convincing to me at all. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is, however, too early for financing.

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Poland Argentina Oakland Entrepreneur 126

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. Remote Stylist. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.

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