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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

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At today's roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk's $1M funding from Accel Partners. See: 1M/1M Incubation Radar: Freshdesk ]. Such long sales cycle businesses find it very difficult to sustain and survive the pre-revenue period. I then discussed some of the lessons of the Freshdesk financing.

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3 Advantages to an Experiential Web Presence

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However, now that we know that your visitors are looking for these experiences and transforming into brand advocates because of these experiences, we can expect to see results in the sales cycle and in revenue flow. Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

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The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). That is just lipstick on a pig.

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