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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). I will be reporting back on the companies we see on this column from the road. 3gSimplified. Report Bee.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Outside the U.S. Regional Ecosystems. Bay of Fires Tasmania.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. He's an entrepreneur, podcast host and community builder.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. Lastly, inequalities in access to banking have long been a barrier to entry for entrepreneurs.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. Here I had an entrepreneur telling me with a straight face that he was leaving the most basic business decisions for the investors to make.

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

ReadWriteStart

I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches. Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself.

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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience advising new businesses, all of the principles that he outlines, including the following subset which I generalize here, should be taken to heart by every entrepreneur: Give customers fewer things that matter more. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions.

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