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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. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m., Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. I added a dev team in India to spearhead new initiatives and design our future UI.

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[Singapore] JFDI.Asia’s Second Accelerator Program This Year Receives Overwhelming Response

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Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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Finance Fridays

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In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.