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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." Toward that end, they have created two products.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Socioclean already has about 25,000 users, and has good interest from a dozen colleges and universities who want to offer white label solutions through their career development offices. Campus sales reps is a good strategy that Chris is experimenting with, as well as marketing to camp directors. I like these two strategies. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. Globally, this is a much larger number. Yogesh already has 45 employers onboard, but while discussing his customer acquisition strategy it became clear that he needs to figure out some way to close sales by phone or online without personally traveling to close every sale.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? Kristen is doing about $70,000 year-to-date, and expects to hit $200,000 for the 2010 fiscal year based on her holiday sales projections. So, in Gio's situation, it is clear to me that he is able to get customers to buy.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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One thing Vin said that I liked a lot is that the Malaysian government is spending heavily on tourism development campaigns, and Qyzzy may be able to become a part of that campaign. If, however, as in Suresh's case, the game plan is to go after a global market, the scenario changes quite a bit. That sounds great.

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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 entire discussion was streaming automatically into Twitter and gave us great visibility. Discuss.