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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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JUNE 16, 2011

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. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. SurgeForth has since graduated to paying customers, and is making good progress. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers. Rajan, however, needs to negotiate his early customers better.

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MAY 5, 2011

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. Photo by nazreth.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. CustomerDiscovery. Discuss.

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JUNE 23, 2011

The idea is interesting, but needs positioning and validation with the right set of target customers. 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.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. Report Bee has two paying customers, and we discussed segmentation issues around where to focus for the early market penetration strategy. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S., Discuss.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

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.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Discuss.

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MARCH 17, 2011

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Words To Live By.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Many online business models would be eviscerated by laws like SOPA that seek to essentially deputize private companies as agents of content owners and law enforcement agencies, coerced into policing their own users (customers) at great cost in both dollars and resources. Healthcare Reform. Yes, really.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Rangrut.com.

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APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive. Discuss.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Then Praful Thachery pitched Delyver Retail Network , a home delivery solution through which Praful is already delivering food, flowers and a variety of other products and services (like dry cleaning) to over 5,000 customers in Bangalore. The value proposition is sound. Saagam.com. Next Kiran Reddy presented Saagam.com. Photo by barunpatro.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Discuss.

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MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. At last week's roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitching. Guerrilla p.r.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Most of the customer service staff is able to work from home for 30 hours a week. Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual incubator 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.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

I reminded him that commercial open source is a classic freemium model, where the free software comes with paid customer support and training. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So, which one are you, I asked. SolSolution. Photo by svilen001.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Since beating out hundreds of entrants in the competition last September, Maternova has racked up some impressive achievements in its mission to provide a global marketplace for doctors, nurses, and midwives to track innovation and buy technologies that save lives in childbirth and help improve newborn care around the world. About Maternova

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites. Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has 100 trial customers at the moment, and is looking to figure out exactly what his company positioning is going to be. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items.

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MAY 12, 2011

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. In February, he had about 200 customers. Happy Grasshopper has incredible testimonials and a host of satisfied customers who are now helping build word of mouth buzz. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Eddie has already invested $350,000 in building the solution, but has done an inadequate job of validating with customers. I pointed him to specific modules within the 1M/1M curriculum to beef up his customer acquisition strategy, Value Proposition and Positioning description, etc. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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JUNE 9, 2011

Next, we went to a discussion on a scenario that a 1M/1M premium company is facing where they offer an innovative customer support solution to large enterprises like Telecom and Consumer Electronics players and are going to market through a channel partner in the U.S. To train a channel, understanding the use cases is crucial. Discuss.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. As such, Deepak hasn't really ventured out of his shell yet to incorporate the voice of the customer. He needs to - ASAP.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. Next, Paul Croskrey with OBM Global pitched the Multi Angular Force Generator (MAFG), an alternative energy startup aiming to provide off-grid power.

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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. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley. Math-Quest. Techsailor.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. Brainscape. Note, I said, validated. Discuss.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richard is currently charging $1.99 I said, no. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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