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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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

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The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta. As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows. Photo by 7rains.

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Social Trends Podcast: We Are Storytellers Weaving Stories With Customers

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Show Guest : Shikha Pahwa is the Founder & CEO of House This India , a home decor company based in New Delhi, India. It was in 2008 that my childhood friend introduced me to his then girl-friend. But I was still a struggling engineer who hadn’t learned the value of life without just numbers. Production : Brandanew.co

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America.