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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

India

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later. Photo by brokenarts.

India

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

Cloud

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

North Carolina

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet

Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Photo by lco.

Valuation

Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Photo by takatuka.

Cloud

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Photo by wax115.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley

Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Utah India Massachusetts

Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Photo by wax115.

Channel

Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley

Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Photo by mjamesno.

Partner

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Raghava Kashyapa then discussed Qualitas Technologies , a system integration company in India focused on the industrial automation market. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Qualitas Technologies. Photo by svilen001.

Startup

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. 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. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with.

Malaysia

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

Networking

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Photo by designkryt.

India

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley

30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

#9- Desire to go global. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. 20- Add value to the global human community. Photo Credit: Ashwin Sokke.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

Marketing

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

Marketing

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping San Jose Entrepreneur Silicon Valley

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

New Global Markets. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur India Intellectual Property

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

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator

Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D.

Programming

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. on a global scale. OrangeScape.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

Strategy Roundtable: Find High Velocity Channels

Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

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

Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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