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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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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., and moved from delivery to architecture and developer evangelism to make sure that new hires don't have to have the same bad experiences we all had to go through until companies started appreciating the internet as a platform. and a team in the U.S.

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Successful offshore practices – let them work on your crown jewels!

BeyondVC

I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India. Today the company has almost 100 employees in India, over 30 of whom have been with the company for 5+ years. All of the main architecture and design is still done in the US, but all of the development is done offshore.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

The information architecture on most website is terrible and the reason is that company employees create it for themselves. What's the difference between US traffic and India? Set out the tasks, identify your audience, test happens, you watch the video and read comments, you cry, you fix things, you become rich.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the recurring themes in the people that I've spoken to in the last few weeks is a society wide sudden realization about the importance of science as the engine of progress, And the importance of having science driven policy, as if somehow we didn't know that before, but somehow we didn't. Let me ask you about your background.

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6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience

ConversionXL

Going even deeper than just showing images in the search bar, what if the site search engine was able to continually learn & improve search relevancy by tracking visitors’s search queries & click-throughs? Principle 3 – Search Results Optimize Themselves To Show Most Relevant Items First.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel.