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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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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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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Born Global or Die Local. Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally.

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8 Interesting Ways Mission-Driven Organizations Are Using AI

Board Effect

Personalized Outreach and Engagement Generative AI can help nonprofits create effective messaging and personalized appeals, as well as identify the best channels for reaching various target audiences. Social Media Content Creation AI can help generate engaging, relevant content for social media channels within seconds.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. On to the roundtable recap.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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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. A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. How does he mitigate that?

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