Roundtable Recap: May 20 – Validation, Validation, Validation

This morning the roundtable ran very smoothly.  The five entrepreneurs who presented are all in various stages of validating who their best customers are.  The best conversations during these roundtables usually stem from the businesses that have already been validated to some degree, simply because I am often not the target customer for a product.

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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday

Sramana Mitra’s next free online 1M/1M strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, May 20, 2010, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  You can find more details and register here. We hope you will  join us and let other entrepreneurs know!

Vision India 2020 Book Review: Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of Zoho, which bootstrapped to over $50 million in annual revenue. Here is his review: “In Vision India 2020, Sramana Mitra provides not a recipe for success, neither a roadmap to transform India. She does something far better than that: Sramana paints what could emerge out of India in the years

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Next Thursday

Sramana Mitra’s next free online 1M/1M strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs will be held next Thursday, May 20, 2010, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  You can find more details and register here. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know!

How To Build A Million Dollar Business

In case you missed it, Donna Fenn with BNET interviewed Sramana Mitra for her article, How to Build a Million Dollar Business.  You can find the article here.

Vision India 2020 Book Review: Should Stir The Creative Juices Of Entrepreneurs

Here is a review by Holden Lee for Amazon: “Vision India 2020 is a richly painted collection of interwoven stories that are part business case study, part futurist fiction, and ultimately scenarios that should stir the creative juices of entrepreneurs, policy makers, and India-watchers alike. While presented as a series of vignettes drawing upon trends

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Take With You The Boldness

Shrey Goyal’s review for The God of Small Things blog is titled, “Visions India 2020: Take With You The Boldness,” and continues with: “While every book is prone to being judged by its cover, Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 is not your average ‘India Shining’ coffee table read. Neither does it make empty assertions of

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Blog Business World

From Wayne Hurlbert’s review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra for Blog Business World: “For me, the power of the book is how Sramana Mitra presents her visionary future for India in a story based format. Instead of simply describing potential opportunities that exist for proprietorships in the Subcontinent, the author brings her concepts

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