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

ReadWriteStart

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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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Outside the U.S. Establish U.S.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So that is the third thing.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). Distribution Channel for Product Companies. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute?

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. We talked about ReachLocal and how we think they’ll be a great channel for any software company wanting to sell online services to local businesses (they have a nationwide salesforce). AppDynamics. We both agreed it was.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation. What channels work best for you product? The same applies for packaging as well.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks.