Roundtable Recap: April 12 – Please Do NOT Develop Products Without Customer Input

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with one business in depth.

BidCRM
Srimanta Jana from Danville, California, pitched BidCRM, a software that has been built with no custoemr input for a couple of years. It combines CRM, e-commerce, marketing automation and other functionality, and has a completely flawed positioning, go-to-market strategy, business model, pricing, etc. You will learn a lot inf you listen to the interaction on how NOT to build a business.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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394th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 394th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 12, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thursday, April 12 – 394th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 394th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

April 12 – 394th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 394th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

393rd Roundtable Recording On April 5, 2018: With Tim Guleri, Sierra Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Roundtable Recap: April 5 – Please Do NOT Go Into Ultra-crowded Market Segments

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures. Tim discussed at length his firm’s investment thesis, unique relationships with CIOs, and some of the industry trends he sees.

Seven Technologies
As for the entrepreneur pitches, Rajesh Prabhu from Bangalore, India, pitched Seven Technologies, a bootstrapped services company that wants to get into developing a CRM product. Neither Tim nor I saw the merit of the strategy, considering that CRM is an incredibly crowded space.

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