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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. partners to help bring his product to market. Discuss.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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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. Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. PTA Portals. Discuss.

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

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Drawing on traditions in the Latin American community, Julie and her partner are bringing to market a very specific product to address a very specific pain, and I believe she can build a very successful e-commerce business based on this idea. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

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The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. Today Stathis Katinas from Greece, pitched CarRentalBookers.com , a business he founded with his partner Tristan Mcvean. It's just not worth it. CarRentalBookers.com. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Going Down? Q3 VC Investments in US Tech Drop 14%

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eCommerce is the smallest vertical in the US tech venture investments, with only $39 million invested in Q3, in eight companies. A notable deal in the software vertical includes Israel-Massachusetts-based uTest ( CEO interview on VC Cafe ), who landed $13 million from Scale Venture Partners and others.