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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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In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. We can guide you on how to organize a gathering.

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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: 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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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: Do Not Spray and Pray

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First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. GrillGrate.

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

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Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy. Let's look at today's presenters. Discuss.