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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. PTA Portals. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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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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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

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One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical. There are nearly 1 million physicians in the US. Athenahealth's Culture.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

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An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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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). Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 back ends for medical, religious, sports, and other kinds of tourism solutions.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. If you decide that the way you want to address all this is by becoming, yourself, an ad network, that is certainly one way of addressing the pain point. It's just not worth it. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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