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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had atte...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?

I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region's entrepreneurship over the years. Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session:...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Estate Lister First up, Siddhesh Joglekar from Mumb...

Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action

Summer is over. Time to get back to work. At today's roundtable, I synthesized some posts from our blog to give entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, and economic development agencies a flavor of what we've been doing this summer to make life easier fo...

Strategy Roundtable: How To Use Twitter For Lead Generation

During this week's roundtable, we followed a slightly different format than our usual five entrepreneur pitches. We did only one entrepreneur pitch, but we did a couple of tutorials on how to run a comprehensive Twitter campaign. I explained the 1M/1M ...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges – An Emerging Trend

Those of you who are familiar with my work know that I do a lot of trend spotting. Some recent trend posts on my blog include There's a Trend To Spot In Groupon's Growth Rate, Customer Service and the Social Web, SaaS Enabled BPO and Near-shoring and U...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Continued International Participation

True to the international dynamic of 1M/1M, during today's roundtable we had entrepreneurs from the U.S., India and Israel pitch their businesses. And in the audience, there were people from at least 30 different corners of the world. directdialogs F...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs.It is a quick self-assessment that you ca...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs – Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance

During today's roundtable, we had the program split into three segments. The first was our usual entrepreneur strategy discussion. The second was a scenario from one of our premium members around lead generation and qualification that we collectively s...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn – Why Not Affiliates?

During today's roundtable, I opened with a question that was going to be a key topic of discussion at the end of the show: Why do large sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization pur...

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. As a business blogger myself,...

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

During today's roundtable, we had two 1M/1M premium members discussing their businesses alongside Penworks, a new company we looked at for the first time. The premium members have been working with us for a bit and have made progress, so this was an in...