ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Sequoia has financed them. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Now, as for today's entrepreneurs, first up today was Hardika Shah presenting Mesoloan, a small enterprise loan program for Indian entrepreneurs in the $2,000-$20,000 loan size bracket. This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Suresh is a 1M/1M premium member.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Agam Berry is an Indian entrepreneur whose expertise lies in digital marketing. Berry’s passion is driving India forward as a global leader in the digital industry. Here are six startup tips for aspiring Indian entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses, like he did. Know your finances. Direct marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor). As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. I think they will be a big help (to entrepreneurs and attorneys alike). SeriesSeed.com.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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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. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. So was Steve Jobs.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Technology ubiquity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. Last month the National Venture Capital Association released a survey which reflected investor’s optimism on high-risk startups, and gave every indication that VCs would continue to invest, particularly in IT, mobile, and cloud-based technologies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country. There are plenty of local resources and services available to help entrepreneurs in their local areas around the globe. It looked promising.

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ReadWriteStart

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. LetsGiftIt. million in revenue. Photo by nosheep.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2012

Surjith Singh from Chennai, India, pitched Rural ERP , a business that intends to focus on supplying rural Indian small and micro businesses with local language ERP systems. Next Sudhendra Seshachala from Houston, Texas and Bangalore, India, presented SmartERP , catering to the domain-specific needs of textile companies in India.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I have written about this before on my Forbes column, but want to raise the question again: Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce. She, however, has framed the business model as a franchise, whereas in my opinion, this is a technology licensing and services business. Next, Priyanka Bhatnagar from Pune, India, pitched Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories , an e-commerce jewelry line.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. it would make more sense than “me.”

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. peerbackers. Quipu Applications. Ekjaa Foundation.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. It is currently evaluating options and strategies for growth and the possibility of additional financing. iFood.tv. Healthcare e-Market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? Very little by way of technology has been applied to the problem thus far. Social Contacts. It needs to be.

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ReadWriteStart

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. I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. It is very expensive to scale operations in multiple cities, and there is absolutely no chance of VCs financing yet another Groupon look alike without serious traction. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. I said, no.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. It is, however, too early for financing. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It makes the following observation: When I first talked about the 1M/1M program, I had observed the need to contain the immense infant entrepreneur mortality prevalent in the startup ecosystem. That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. His firm invests in four. CricketWeekly.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. He is looking for financing for the show. Mava Consulting. And that is what I advised J.J.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. Another entrepreneur from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Darren Panag with Convep Mobilogy , pitched AppsAsia, a mobile platform for business apps on various mobile devices such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and so on. ISA Innovation. A mistake, in my opinion.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

To date, Salesforce has been focused on small tuck-in technology acquisitions, so it is an interesting move for them. There arent any companies at scale built on Force.com that would justify such a raise, so either Salesforce will have to buy a light technology at scale (email marketing?) mba india. Finance Dissertation Help.

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