Posts in the "Business News" Category

  • Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models => Dangerous!

    Business News
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    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, India, pitched BootStrapToday, an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS solution from his company Sensible Softwares. Anand already has 100 beta customers and fifteen of them are paying Rs. 1000-2000 (~$20-$40) per month to access advanced workflow logistics and intelligence in the area of software ..read more Read More...

  • Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Web 3.0 & Social Dancing, Romania Emerging

    Business News
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    At today’s roundtable, we had a 30-minute segment on Web 3.0 and Social Dancing. We basically took the Web 3.0 framework – Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) – and did a blue sky exercise on how to create a comprehensive user experience for social dancers. We also explored business models that not only can span advertising, subscription, and e-commerce, but also hybrid virtual-physical concepts that could even draw upon a Starbucks of Salsa, Tango or Swing!

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  • Nerf Guns Hold the Line Between Startups and Corporatocracy

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    Growing up on the coast Maine we would do all sorts of things to pass the time. In back of our house was a small stream with steep banks surrounded by a forest that ran from the tidal sections of the Royal River to the Cousins River. We called it The Creak. By the time we were about 10 years old or so, The Creak had become an epic battle ground for the neighborhood kids, would-be commandos yielding sophisticated weapons ..read more Read More...

  • Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

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    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 and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. Once upon a time, it was a rather straightforward exercise of collecting names and mailing addresses, and then running direct mail campaigns. As the Internet ..read more Read More...

  • Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

    Business News
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    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 Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting the CRM price-point by leveraging India to build a $100M+ 100% bootstrapped business. Freshdesk aims to do the same in Social CRM and already has ..read more Read More...