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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

They simply need the diligence and work ethic to learn and to implement. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They do not require taking any risks.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. The missing piece is getting reviewed by campus blogs and newspapers, which I advised Chris to look into. His customer acquisition strategy, however, needs a lot of work. I like these two strategies.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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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. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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

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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. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. 3gSimplified.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade

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We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.