1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 2

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 2, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. This roundtable will be co-hosted by the University Impact Fund, so their entrepreneurs will be given first priority to pitch their businesses.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here. All are welcome!

November 18 Roundtable Poll Winner

Yogesh Sharma’s Rangrut.com was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here and listen to the recording found here.

Roundtable Recap: November 18 – 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 basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet.

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now – diligently, patiently – and have learned a few things. First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.
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November 18 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here. You can choose which business you like the best through a poll on our Facebook page.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere makes intelligent software to automate business and IT processes ranging from network automation to Web data extraction to application integration. The company competes in a mature market, yet one that is still vital owing to the popularity of what Gartner calls “'[business process analysis] for the masses’ […] embedding BPA into the everyday organization” and the “increased use of automated and nonautomated “’as-is’ process discovery and cloud-based modeling to improve communication and collaboration.” >>>

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: ShopIgniter, Portland, Oregon

As we saw in the recent Tech Stocks post on Amazon and eBay, retail analysts expect e-commerce to increase at a much higher rate than traditional sales this November and December. Social commerce is still small: blogs and social networking sites are the first step in the shopping process for just 3% of customers. But companies such as ShopIgniter, the creator of a social commerce suite called sCommerce, believe that this number will only grow and that the 2010 holiday season will be a defining period for the blending of e-commerce and social networking.
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Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, November 18

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held this Thursday, November 18, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, November 18

Entrepreneurs, the next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, November 18, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here. All are welcome!