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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

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For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way.

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

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I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network. Unless he can get a network to buy in, there will be no point in producing the show. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). This will result in stronger networks of interaction and relationships from employees to suppliers to customers.

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Building a mobile app startup is about solving problems, not chasing ideas

The Next Web

Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. For example, SnapDeal is a Groupon clone in India with localized content and features. Think Linkedin – social networking concept adapted to the business industry. The only difference is, this time, there is no bubble waiting to burst.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. It's just not worth it.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning.