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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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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. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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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. PTA Portals.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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The idea is interesting, but needs positioning and validation with the right set of target customers. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

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The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

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The positioning of the company needs work, although I do believe Rahul has half a dozen beta customers whose feedback and engagement would give him the ammunition with which to find and validate the real pain point around in-house legacy systems at call center companies. IndiaCollegeSearch. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

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It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. I advised Manivel to reposition his company to cater to institutes that want to develop private funding exchanges and conduct a thorough customer validation process based on that assumption. Edward has a medical tourism portal customer for whom he is building such a solution.

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