www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Sponsored Links Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes, cars, tools and services in exchange for deep savings. Skip to Main Content. Game Hunters.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Ankur has uncovered a very real and substantial problem in the transportation industry spanning road, rail, ship: very often vehicle capacity goes under utilized due to lack of information on cargo and its whereabouts, and lack of communication among shippers and their clients. The value proposition is sound.

Entrepreneur 118

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APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

India 126

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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. Gerard started off by saying that anyone looking for a customer on the Internet is a potential customer for this business. They do not require taking any risks.

Silicon Valley 124

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. What we have taken on is hard enough.

Silicon Valley 114

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ReadWriteStart

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.

Entrepreneur 116

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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.

Illinois 114

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JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

Spain 115

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.

Cloud 117

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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. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. TheNextBigZing.com.

India 114

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals. customers, and then raise the next round in the Valley. Google Adwords advertising.

Silicon Valley 117

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APRIL 1, 2011

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.

India 119

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction.

North Carolina 116

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MARCH 17, 2011

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. 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.

Costa Rica 114

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. Well, eLance has experienced similar problems, and I asked David to concentrate on communicating to his user base of service providers the value of building a reputation through references and reviews/customer feedback.

India 116

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. 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? Trendy Loot.

Valuation 119

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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.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

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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.

Advertising 116

Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Friends into customers? Customers into salespeople? Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. ” [Tweet It!]. Strangers into friends? Image Source.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

Our guest today is Brian Reaves, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Dell Technologies , responsible for Dell Technologies’ global diversity and inclusion initiatives. Could you please share the best D&I practices of Dell Technologies? That’s how we approach diversity & inclusion at Dell Technologies.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John Jantsch (07:24): Awesome.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

acronyms e.g. MIT for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Another worthwhile exercise is sitting down with the marketing team or sales team to discuss the descriptive language used to attract & close customers. Close variations include: singular or plural forms e.g. shoe or shoes. stemmings e.g. hiking from hike.

PPC 114

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Web Design/Tech Services.

Venture Capital 107

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Then Pradeep Chaudhary from Kolkata, India, discussed ServiceSutra , which aims to be an online provider of reviews and ratings and recommendations for local service providers like movers and packers, wedding planners, interior decorators, etc. ServiceSutra. All in all, a very promising venture. Overall, I saw several promising businesses.

Brazil 115

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S.

Cofounder 20

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Paul Graham says : “ An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is that you know you’re making something at least one customer wants. Many companies founded on partnerships ultimately fall apart due to friction between the partners, be it over money, power, direction of the company, or something else.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Frankly I think Google, as we said, they always want to return the best for the searcher, that’s their customer. Yet when I reviewed Google for the content that was ranking very well for knowledge workers searches, everybody was doing a great job telling stories. I’m in Wooster, Massachusetts. Or Google Dan Shure.

SEO 39

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Girish Mathrubootham, from Chennai, India, discussed FreshDesk , a full-featured social customer support SaaS offering targeted toward small businesses. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch. See those things around your legs, cloud customer?

Technical Review 93

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