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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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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

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2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. Social media will continue to attract investment, as well as clean energy, nano technologies, and bio-pharma. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011.

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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.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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The company addresses a widely-experienced pain: employers are now using social networks for background check on issues such as comments about prior employers, substance-usage, and general image issues that may come across as red-flags to a prospective employer. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. We did a cobranded social chat event on Tuesday that gave us an opportunity to actually test ride the Stanzr product. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Companies can keep up by listening to their customers via social media or other feedback mechanisms. urban population will almost double between 2010-2050 (to 6.4B!). worth of produce is wasted in India b/c of outdated post-harvest infrastructure. “think globally, act locally&#. toys without toxic paints).