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189th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 189th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 26, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid

With so much attention given to the 1% of entrepreneurs who do receive funding, Sramana Mitra turns the tables and presents her analysis of why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing get rejected in her new book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid (Amazon Kindle; September 19, 2013).

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Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 4)

Sramana: You went to market with 15 carriers. At what point did you start getting them to pay for products? Alon Maor: We got them to start paying once we had the initial product. That means it had to be a carrier-grade product. They will evaluate the product in a lab. We had a few

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: For the small retailer category, I like the kind of marketing strategy you are talking about a lot, because there is a problem of being able to generate meaningful content. Let’s say you make an e-mail newsletter – it is not easy for a small retailer to generate an interesting e-mail newsletter on

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, CMO of Talend (Part 1)

Yves de Montcheuil is the chief marketing officer of Talend, a company that provides data, application and business process integration solutions to organizations with the goal of leveraging their data assets. Yves has studied at the Grande Ecole des Sciences de l’Information et de l’Energie, commonly known as Supélec, and has more than 20 years

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Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 3)

Sramana: These days investors do not fund concepts. They only fund businesses. That means there needs to be customers buying a product. Alon Maor: In our case, since we are approaching the carrier space which is a large software-based capital intensive project, the incubation we did was through 15 worldwide carrier references. We had endorsements

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That is true in B2C, but in B2B that doesn’t really work that well. Jai Rawat: Absolutely. There are certain categories that are very content heavy, where a person wants to sit down and read about that. But in the B2C category, you basically get the user´s attention with images.