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174th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Calculate Your TAM Accurately
By Guest Post at May 17, 2013 | 10:38 am | 0 Comment
174th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Calculate Your TAM Accurately Today’s roundtable had several entrepreneurs with promising businesses, including some already in revenue. Localvore First, Cameron Kramlich from San Francisco, California, pitched Localvore, a concept for local artisans to be able to sell their merchandise to consumers who want to shop more...
173rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Promising Portfolio From India
By Guest Post at May 11, 2013 | 8:54 am | 0 Comment
173rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Promising Portfolio From India Today’s roundtable comprised entirely of Indian entrepreneurs. Avaz First, Ajit Narayanan from Chennai, India, pitched Avaz, an iPad app for autistic children. Ajit is a 1M/1M premium member, and has been working with us on his strategy to not only increase the revenues from his products more...
172nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tech Recruitment in Bulgaria; Custom Fashion in India; Incubator-in-a-Box
By Guest Post at May 4, 2013 | 9:09 am | 0 Comment
172nd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Tech Recruitment in Bulgaria; Custom Fashion in India; Incubator-in-a-Box Today’s roundtable had an interesting group of talented people working on a diverse set of businesses. Before we go there, however, I must bring to your attention our newly launched Incubator-in-a-Box. To enable everyone in any part of the world more...
171st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IT For Cleantech IN, Cleantech OUT
By Guest Post at April 26, 2013 | 8:12 am | 0 Comment
171st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: IT For Cleantech IN, Cleantech OUT Today’s roundtable had a couple of California businesses and an Indian company pitching. Before I get to them, let me remind you about the Rackspace Cloud – 1M/1M Startup Challenge. Open to cloud-based startups only, this challenge begins with an application process. Five cloud more...
170th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Singapore To Israel
By Guest Post at April 20, 2013 | 9:01 am | 0 Comment
170th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Singapore To Israel Today’s roundtable spanned entrepreneurs from Singapore to Israel, with India in between. Storyzer First up, today, KimSia Sim and Kai from Singapore pitched Storyzer, an e-publishing platform for graphic novels. Kai, a graphic artist himself, has lived the challenge of being a creative more...
169th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: India’s Startup Industry Has A Major Gap – Product Marketing
By Guest Post at April 13, 2013 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
169th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: India’s Startup Industry Has A Major Gap – Product Marketing Today’s roundtable focused on India again, and we worked on five startups from various parts of the country. As discussed before, Indian entrepreneurs are trying to make the journey from services and products, and on that road, the biggest roadblock I observe more...
167th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Positioning And Focus Create Fast Sales Cycles
By Guest Post at March 30, 2013 | 9:11 am | 0 Comment
167th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Positioning And Focus Create Fast Sales Cycles Today’s roundtable had some very interesting businesses, each of which has a high potential for success. Sapience First up, Ranjit Nambiar, from Bangalore, India, pitched Sapience (a 1M/1M premium company). We worked on Sapience’s positioning and go-to-market strategy, more...
166th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Differentiation Is Key
By Guest Post at March 22, 2013 | 8:07 am | 0 Comment
166th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Differentiation Is Key Today’s roundtable had three long pitches and a few additional short discussions on elevator pitches by entrepreneurs. CourseGarage.com First up, Shikha Chaudhry from Ghaziabad, India, pitched CourseGarage.com. She proposes to offer a set of courses to teenagers with the purpose of familiarizing more...
How To Spot Financial Bubbles Before They Burst
By Guest Post at March 21, 2013 | 9:02 am | 0 Comment
In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In all these cases, a bust is inevitable, and everyone more...
165th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On ProductNation, India
By Guest Post at March 16, 2013 | 9:11 am | 0 Comment
165th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On ProductNation, India Today’s roundtable put the spotlight on entrepreneurs from ProductNation, an initiative by iSPIRT- a think-tank focused on transforming India into a hub for new generation software products. As you might know, India is a country firmly positioned on the global IT map, but as a service more...
