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

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The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. PowerStores.in.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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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. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

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Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Michael Kassing.