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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: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Marcial Cambronero, also from Costa Rica, pitched HandIt.me, an intriguing concept for "social shipping."

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Kristen is doing about $70,000 year-to-date, and expects to hit $200,000 for the 2010 fiscal year based on her holiday sales projections. She also has a secondary audience who shop for gifts. These are women in their 40s to early 60s, often shopping for younger women. Her main questions were around customer acquisition and financing.

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Talented Women: Please Do Not Quit.

YoungUpstarts

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

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I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.