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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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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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At the same time, we also have seen several examples of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their e-commerce companies without any external financing until much later in the game. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Or, bootstrap longer.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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