Next Strategy Roundtable on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009

Through this free, online Positioning Roundtable, Sramana Mitra aims to help early-stage entrepreneurs further develop their business ideas. Entrepreneurs can participate from anywhere by computer or phone and there will be a live, interactive chat throughout the webinar. You can find more details and register here.  We hope you will join us on Wed. Oct. 7, 2009 at 10 a.m. PT/1

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Forbes Column 2009: The VC Quandary

Your goal is to build a successful business, not raise a lot of funding. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, The VC Quandary.

Free Strategy Roundtable on Cisco Telepresence Sept 15

There are still a few openings in Santa Clara, London and Hyderabad for entrepreneurs to participate in person in Sramana Mitra’s free “Positioning Strategy Roundtable” Telepresence Video Conference on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get feedback on your business idea, have specific questions answered, and to interact face-to-face with Sramana and other entrepreneurs. You can

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IT Business Edge Interview on Bootstrapping

Ann All interviewed Sramana for IT Business Edge recently: Bootstrapping A Better Alternative than VC for Most Startups. “[In the ’90s,] there was so much hoopla about venture capital that it created a completely wrong way of thinking about entrepreneurship.” “Entrepreneurs tend to be very extreme people. You kind of have to be crazy to

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping In The UK

Two bloggers in the United Kingdom reviewed Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction this week. And, UK readers, don’t forget that London is one of the locations for Sramana’s FREE Telepresence video conference for entrepreneurs on September 15, 2009. You can find more details and register here. To see the book reviews, click on the full

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: “We twist and turn the ideas and make them our own.”

Irina Patterson posted an interesting review of Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon.com: “I tell every entrepreneur I counsel to buy this book first and read it so they can get a broad overview of possible bootstrapping strategies.  After they are done with reading this book, we go chapter-by-chapter and review how similar strategies can be applied

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Breaking The 9 to 5 Jail

Devesh Dwivedi interviewed Sramana recently on Breaking The 9 to 5Jail . It’s an interesting conversation that discusses using your 9 to 5 corporate job as a technique of bootstrapping and other related issues.

Deal Radar 2009: GlobalSubmit

Today’s Deal Radar is another great bootstrapping case study! GlobalSubmit (formerly known as Intuitive Technologies), provides validation and review software for electronic control technical document (eCTD) submissions for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and life sciences companies. As Intuitive Technologies, the company created publishing products for the financial industry. However, the economic downturn in

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