ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. Perhaps it is time to look into Startup School. Startups are not easy. But there is more to it than that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. That’s not a big margin, but every little bit counts in this space.

Las Vegas 120

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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. Campus sales reps is a good strategy that Chris is experimenting with, as well as marketing to camp directors. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. entrepreneur funding venture capital' No surprises here.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Massachusetts California 271

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

Entrepreneur 116

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

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. Photo by Alexander Mooij.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Andrew Payne

APRIL 11, 2011

1554 are winding their way through the Massachusetts legislature. I’ll concede that the US Constitution has made our in-state/out-of-state sales tax system a bit quirky. In case you missed it, H.1731 1731 and S.1554

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. It's like entrepreneurs have goals.

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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. Well, I was once an amateur.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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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. 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. I will describe their businesses briefly, below.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Cofounder Dallas LLC 51

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. Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., I call it drip-financing.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. entrepreneur startup investor funding venture capital business'

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Massachusetts California 238

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup'

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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. Then Suresh Sambandam with OrangeScape came on to discuss a specific issue: where should entrepreneurs try to raise money? Suresh is a 1M/1M premium member.

Silicon Valley 117

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

He lives in Central Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. He works in marketing for a large healthcare organization, and moonlights as a photographer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. I have to say, this was one of the most exciting things I’ve ever experienced as an entrepreneur! Learn more at [link].

Software Review 167

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

You’re out shopping with some friends when you get a notification that there’s a sale at your favorite store, so you run on over there to score some great deals. For example, Massachusetts doesn’t allow geofencing near medical facilities. “Your order is ready for pick up!”. Hey, do you have anything to drop off? We’re ready for you!”.

Small Business 189

Small Business Marketing Massachusetts SEO 189

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Camden Francis In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Camden Francis. My dad also is an entrepreneur himself, so that's helpful. I have a great network.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Massachusetts Distribution Networking 69

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Angel investors are people too. AngelList.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

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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San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. And the money is nice, too."

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

I agree with his observation, and advised him to go sell his solution to the VP of Sales, and help him identify how the sales force is using various unique and exciting CRM and sales force automation tools. I asked Noam to go test this on 50 VPs of Sales, and then come back and discuss the feedback with me. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur India Intellectual Property 124

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Want to be an entrepreneur? Businesses For Sale |.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 1, 2011

2930 (the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”), a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Yes, on November 2nd, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts introduced S.1791 House of Representatives passed H.R.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Massachusetts California Security 88

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers. Quipu Applications.

Affiliate 130

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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? If you are an entrepreneur looking for an open problem to solve, look no further. Social Contacts.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

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.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

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. So, effectively, at the cost of one full-time sales rep, they can access coverage in four different regions.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

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. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware program is high-quality information from a renown and trusted institution. Their Entrepreneurial Marketing: Major Themes course is exactly what it sounds like: the major themes in marketing that entrepreneurs need to know. Managing a Business Sales and Marketing'

Small Business 147

Small Business Marketing India Massachusetts 147

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.

Incubator 116

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail. Chak's budget is very low.

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. In early November, the U.S.

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