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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus. million financing round for.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Please try to understand why.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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

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Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. This, needless to say, projects a very large TAM.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model

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You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. I said, no.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Sequoia has financed them. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November.

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