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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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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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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. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. AppDynamics.

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5 Reasons Why Global Expansion Is a Great Idea

Transformify

The same is applicable to the minimum wage and the average market pay rate if you are planning on opening an office and hiring distributed workforce overseas. Singapore, China, India, and some other Asian countries have become economic production areas. Allows you to offset the fluctuations in the existing local market.

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8 Positive Lessons From Facebook On Building Momentum

Startup Professionals Musings

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business

Startup Professionals Musings

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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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. Distribution: Most startups tend to launch on either Kickstarter or on their own site.