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| Dec 23, 2021 | Founders at Work: 160+ историй от основателей стартапов | В прошлом году я делал подборку с историями от рускоговорящих основателей из YCombinator, недавно я поднапрягся и поискал по интернету все истории основателей на англиском языке (текст, аудио и видео). Нашел истории 160+ стартапов, рассказа... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation? | One of the great things about editing all of our deep-dive EC-1 startup profiles is that you start to notice patterns across successful companies. While origin stories and trajectories can vary widely, the best companies seem to come from s... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | The Covid Pivot: Why Bootstrapping During Hard Times Can Drive Sustainable Growth | Entering ‘20 Kathy Kuo was planning on raising money for the first time for her business Kathy Kuo Home, an online full-service design boutique offering a carefully curated selection of luxury furniture and home decor. Since founding the fi... |
| Aug 7, 2019 | Увеличить количество пользователей со 100 тысяч до 2 млн за семь лет: техники роста языкового сервиса Duolingo Статьи редакции | Постоянные A/B-тесты, ориентирование на точные данные и корректировка бизнес-модели помогли компании долго не прибегать к рекламе и платным подпискам. Перевод материала из Product Habits Blog.
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| Dec 26, 2018 | One More Nine-Figure Round As 2018 Races To A Close | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: China-based edtech takes down one more supergiant round before the year ends.
The markets are back alive today, and while American stocks put on a show, private companies aren’t in ... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Cloud data management startup Druva raises $80M | There is an ongoing trend among businesses to put more of their data into the cloud — and as part of that, to bring ever more smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices on to their networks to create and consume that data. That is driv... |
| May 4, 2016 | Five years after a failed IPO, ON24 is back with $25 million from Goldman Sachs | Webinars… who needs ’em?
Apparently lots of companies. That’s why Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing Group is investing $25 million in the cash-positive business of the once-foundering marketing technology company, ON24.
The round is ... |
| 2016 | What’s The Half Life Of A Unicorn? | Simon Crosby Contributor
Simon Crosby is co-founder and CTO of Bromium.
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The Psychology Of Insecurity
“Cybercorns” are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of these extraordin... |
| Jul 21, 2014 | Starting Unicorn Companies: FireEye | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last November, Cowboy Ventures’ Ailene Lee wrote a post on Techcrunch titled Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups. In it, she offered a list of c... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | May 10,000 Cloud Startups Bloom | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The cloud services market has fueled a boom of immensely successful startups, most of which have raised millions in venture funding. Take analytics platform company Birst, whi... |
| Jun 6, 2014 | Starting Unicorn Companies: Tableau Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last November, Ailene Lee wrote a post on TechCrunch entitled Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups. In it, she offered a list of companies that h... |
| May 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship Inside Corporations | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There is a real trend developing right now of large corporations becoming crucibles of innovation and entrepreneurship in a systematic way. In this post, I will discuss four s... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | How To Fund a “Fat Startup” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
These days, we focus a lot more on lean startups than startups that require capital to get going. The entire industry has moved away from the “fat” startup category. Investors... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Crowdfunding Startups: Opportunities and Bottlenecks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There has been a bit of action for a while now in the crowdfunding world, and certain startups have been able to get themselves off the ground using Kickstarter, Indiegogo, an... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | [Updated] These Are The 15 Best Accelerators In The U.S. | Business accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars have come to occupy a critical geography in the tech landscape, and today two professors are announcing the results of their survey to determine which ones have come out on top at South ... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | Not All Student Entrepreneurs Drop Out | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Today’s generation of students has a high exposure to the Internet, smartphones, social and many other technologies from a very young age. It is not uncommon to see college st... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | A Tablet App from Invention Labs Helps Kids with Speech Disabilities | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The field of educational technologies is going through an exciting period. From massively open online courses (MOOCs) like MIT’s OCW or edX and Khan Academy to a range of tabl... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | Innovation’s Next Decade | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
While the world economy continues to look shaky, the technology industry has never looked stronger.
Now is perhaps a good time to stop for a moment and reflect on what the nex... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Balancing Act: How a Working Mom Built Steals.com | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Working mothers are constantly struggling to strike a balance between spending time with their kids and making the most of their professional skills or supporting their famili... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Trendspotting: Platform Ecosystems | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For big enterprise services companies, the hot new trend is having a cloud-hosted platform for third-party applications. These platforms give app developers the resources they... |
| May 13, 2013 | Bootstrapping Products with Services | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Because it’s often so difficult for entrepreneurs to obtain seed funding for their startups, bootstrapping is one of the best methods to self-fund their projects. And offering... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Bootstrapping With A Paycheck | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Entrepreneurs looking to launch their startups are often faced with myriad difficult decisions, chief among them being the question of seed financing. If you’ve ever found you... |
| Apr 2, 2013 | Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The cost of healthcare administration is a hot issue in America. According to the Center for American progress, in the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $361 billion annuall... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Crowdsourcing is a growing trend in the tech startup industry, and one that has the potential to address pressing needs in various markets. In particular, crowdsourcing of wor... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It is of particular interest to me when an established industry begins to innovate and move in new directions. Financial technology has been an active area of innovation all a... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Box, GitHub Prove Enterprise Software Is Cool Again | Box CEO Aaron Levie has been on a one-man crusade to make the enterprise sexy again. Based on the 2012 Crunchie Award winners, it worked. While a number of nominees and winners were consumer-facing startups that will likely be passé by next... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | The Series A Crunch: Don’t Get Discouraged | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Much is being said on a daily basis about the “Series A crunch.” Supposedly, there aren’t enough venture investors to support all the startups winning seed funding these days.... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | The Million Dollar Club | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I had two conversations last week, each of which reinforces a simple phenomenon that I have constantly emphasized over the last five years in my writings.
On Wednesday, I had ... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | Women ARE Running Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There has been tremendous sensationalizing of the women and entrepreneurship issue. Self-proclaimed (male) pundits pontificate on how women entrepreneurs face tremendous obsta... |
| Dec 28, 2012 | A Wake-Up Call for Angel Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Editor’s note: To tap the wisdom of our distinguished group of Xconomists, we asked a few of them to answer this question heading into 2013: What does your gut tell you will ... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | TrendSpotting: eFood, iEat | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The food industry may seem like the last bastion of brick and mortar companies, relying solely on human efforts. Think again. A new crop of entrepreneurs are taking our love o... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Trendspotting: The Variegated Social Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The social Web is gradually taking over the Internet. From search to shopping, everything is getting social these days. Time for an overview of what we see in the 1M/1M portfo... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Trendspotting: The Era of E-Sharing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
From sharing maternity clothing to sharing car rides, this seems to be the era of sharing, and the Internet is playing the role of the grand facilitator. A few people have alr... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | Small Companies Storm the Edutech Market; Teachers and Parents Needed To Accelerate Innovation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Online education is now available for everyone. Parents can home school their children from the moment they start kindergarten until they graduate from high school. Online col... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | Dorm Room Fund: $500k pilot from First Round Capital for college startups | Early-stage First Round Capital has announced this morning the launch of its Dorm Room Fund, a $500,000 pilot investment fund run by and for college student entrepreneurs that will make small investments to college-bound startups, often bel... |
| Sep 4, 2012 | India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaSy War | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sale... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | SaaS Spreads to India and Beyond | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Software as a service is a thriving and still growing industry with dozens of multi-million dollar companies making their mark around the world. According to Gartner, global s... |
| Aug 1, 2012 | Answers Acquires Online Merchant Review Service ResellerRatings | Q&A site Answers today announced that it has acquired ResellerRatings, a site that calls itself “the web’s leading independent resource for helping shoppers find the best online retailers.” ResellerRatings currently features about 1 mil... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Silicon Valley *Is* a Meritocracy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Of late, there has been talk that Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy, and that it is biased against women, black, and older entrepreneurs. I don’t believe this is true.
I hav... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Xconomist of the Week: Sramana Mitra Combats Infant Entrepreneur Mortality | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investor Stewart Alsop has called San Francisco Xconomist Sramana Mitra “a symbol of everything that is great about America: a geek, an entrepreneur, an immigrant, a leader.” ... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are You Fundable? | Today’s roundtable had a couple of interesting businesses, but before I get to them, I want to underscore that entrepreneurs MUST gauge fundability before assuming that they can build their businesses by raising money.
TravelTriangle.com
Fi... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: YCombinator vs. 1M/1M | Today’s roundtable, as usual, was an international affair, with entrepreneurs presenting from different parts of the US, India, Israel, and many other geographies. Before I share what we heard from them today, I want to highlight an importa... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs | In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused ... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | Meet Y Combinator’s newest partner, Geoff Ralston | The newest member of Y Combinator’s team is angel investor and successful entrepreneur Geoff Ralston.
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced the addition of Ralston in a blog post yesterday, writing that Ralston is “a perfect match for ... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | The Other 99 Percent: Entrepreneurs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99 percent of entrep... |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida | Today’s roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. For the uninitiated, Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where entrepreneurs come together to pitch ideas, form teams, and learn best practices.
This past weekend, the ... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable? | Today’s roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. So, I would like to take some time to offer a broad overview on the ... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India | Today’s roundtable was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and the 1M/1M program as part of the former’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the student-run e-cell. For the uninitiated, IIT K... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models => Dangerous! | At today’s roundtable, the last for 2011, we had four different countries represented and an intense set of discussions on five very interesting businesses – a fabulous event to end the year with.
BootstrapToday
Anand Agarwal from Pune, Ind... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012 | At today’s roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe.
Social Contacts
Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? They market ... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners | At today’s roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk’s $1M funding from Accel Partners. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and ... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship | I have written about this before on my Forbes column, but want to raise the question again: Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? The question has, over time, resulted in huge discussions, some defensive, some self-aware an... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Reengineering Capitalism | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the fading months of 2011, we find ourselves in an uncertain world.
On the one hand, America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, and the nation’s faith in free... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right | I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections.
Today, I want to share with you a story of an amazing entrepreneurial team led by Alex Bouzari, CEO of Data Direct. In How To Defend Your Dream Agains... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Nonprofits And For-profits | During today’s roundtable, we had a lot of discussion around nonprofits and for-profits.
Foundups: Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups, which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model | At today’s roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly – the Internet’s obsession with FREE. MyStream
Richard Zelson, from New York, New York, discussed
MyStream
, a music streaming app that allows m... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model | At today’s roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly – the Internet’s obsession with FREE.
MyStream
Richard Zelson, from New York, New York, discussed
MyStream
, a music streaming app that allows m... |
| Oct 6, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Dedicated To Steve Jobs | “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, dis... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina | During this week’s roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition,... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship? | I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region’s entrepreneurship over the years. Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at ... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First | At today’s roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Estate Lister
First up, Siddhesh Joglekar... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups | At today’s roundtable, we had a jam-packed pitch session with five Israeli start-ups. Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. Both the audience and the presenters had a ... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges – An Emerging Trend | Those of you who are familiar with my work know that I do a lot of trend spotting. Some recent trend posts on my blog include There’s a Trend To Spot In Groupon’s Growth Rate, Customer Service and the Social Web, SaaS Enabled BPO and Near-s... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs | We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a
new assessment tool for entrepreneurs
.
It is a quick self-assessme... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals | During today’s roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present.
Two of them, Freshdesk and Bizosys (10Screens), are 1M/1M premium members, and we have already been working on their strategies for a... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M and Incubators – What We Have Learned | During today’s roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world.
The 1M/1M team has invested significant resources to engage with and understand the challenges o... |
| May 19, 2011 | 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs | During today’s roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models.
As a business blog... |
| May 12, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies | During today’s roundtable, we had two 1M/1M premium members discussing their businesses alongside Penworks, a new company we looked at for the first time. The premium members have been working with us for a bit and have made progress, so th... |
| May 6, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters | Before I write the recap of today’s roundtable, I want to share with you a couple of thoughts that have been playing in my head, and I have given at least four talks on this topic over the last 30 days. One of them is: Ownership Matters. A ... |
| May 5, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M | After hosting three live roundtables and being on stage for six to seven hours a day last month during
my trip to Pune
, I almost lost my voice. At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the t... |
| May 4, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune | On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event. Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Well, Persistent Systems and IncuCapital hosted a highly in... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network | On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post.
I presented my usual 1M/1M persp... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia | At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD w... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft’s $100K India Startup Challenge Grant | At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced our collaboration with Microsoft around a $100,000 grant that they are offering to four Indian entrepreneurs as follows: A $40,000 grant each to two entrepreneurs, one in Mo... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | BioNanomatrix raises $24 million Series B | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest | This week’s One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago.
First up, Priy... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America | For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Latin and Central America. One of the things I have enjoyed tremendously about 1M/1M is its distinctly international nature. Over the years, we’ve had entrepr... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India | 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 ... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest | At this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington.
The first, Nitie Mehta from Redmond, Washington, ... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators – What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? | I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators – What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? It makes the following observation:
When I first tal... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google’s Enterprise Solution | For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we started off by announcing a new deal through which the 1M/1M-Persistent Systems partnership has decided to back Indian company, OrangeScape. So the first company I want to discuss to... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: When Keywords Are Competitive | For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing. Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have bec... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Entrepreneurs Are Maturing | For this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we partnered with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). India, as you all know, is a rising power in the entrepreneurship firmament, and the country’s entrepreneurs are making a long-awaited ... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing | During this week’s One Million by One Million roundtable, we started with a discussion of our hot-off-the-press news: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With Persistent Systems; CrowdEngineering First Beneficiary. This partnership speaks to a core... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem | I want to start today’s recap with a prayer for Steve Jobs. I just wrote a post on my blog saying, Apple Doesn’t Need Steve Jobs; Tech Industry Does. It sums up my sadness at the thought of our industry not having the privilege of Steve’s t... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | End-of-life planning makes it – one way or another (Morning Read) | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch | We started this week’s roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade. The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money? | During this week’s roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the ... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting | During this week’s roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program’s plans around supporting social enterprises. Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, ... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory | During this week’s roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we’re focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basi... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview | At today’s roundtable I offered a sneak preview into the One Million by One Million Premium Lounge we have just unveiled to a small group of core users. To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs, T... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners | At today’s roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items.
First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFl... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors | At today’s roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches.
First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue, a mobile a... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets | At today’s roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities – $500 million to $1 billion. But y... |
| Oct 10, 2010 | Men and Women Entrepreneurs: Not That Different | In any debate, it is easy to revert to anecdote and highlight examples that exemplify one point of view. Recent TechCrunch posts about women in tech have done just that. The latest of these claimed that women don’t want to run startups, bec... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation | At today’s roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I’d like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising mo... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don’t Fund Broad Ideas | At today’s roundtable I had a disturbing experience.
One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-bu... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Mobile Ads News and Trends: Android Requests Up, iAd on the Rise, RIM Joins the Game | When it rains, it pours! Today, there’s a ton of new information about mobile advertising trends and new initiatives, all of which should catch the eye of marketers, advertisers and developers alike.
For starters, a new report from Millenni... |
| Sep 23, 2010 | Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray | At today’s roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. You can vote on which one you like most by clicking on our Facebook page. I... |
