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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. Discuss.

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

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This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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ViVu is also a startup (funded by DFJ, and seed funds Inventus Capital, Quest Venture Partners, and Amidzad), and true to our philosophy, we're using the 1M/1M program to give them visibility. It is very much my intention to provide similar visibility and customer access to a large number of startups through 1M/1M. Photo by svilen001.

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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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

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This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

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Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical. Discuss.

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