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

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Having worked on technology licensing businesses, I have a good idea on how challenging those are from a sales cycle and cash flow perspective and, since Abhijit is still running a bootstrapped operation, I asked him about his strategy to manage the long sales cycle and the associated cash flow challenge. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. 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. GrillGrate.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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For enterprises and small businesses, managing a systematic sales cycle is crucial, and before having telemarketing reps call prospects, a few rounds of Stanzr events may be an efficient way to move them down the sales funnel. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Photo by svilen001.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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