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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

Why this acquisition? Facebook is no longer the innovative, nimble startup it once was, and needs to acquire to stay relevant – see the post on Google’s recent acquisition of Nest. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

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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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world? Beyond Lenovo’s famous acquisition of IBM’s PC business, entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda bought American cinema operator AMC Entertainment followed by British yacht builder Sunseeker.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start. Regional from day one (RD1).

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. The world’s best brains are on sale. Irony, hey?). In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Let’s buy more!&#.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

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. Photo by tatlin.