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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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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. on a global scale. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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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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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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My co-founder, Paul Pirner and I were old friends and craft beer lovers who had each decided (independently of one another) to adopt an alcohol-free lifestyle. 18- Desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. We felt that we should be the first brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

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When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. Plus, with India being 2.5 See also The Pros And Cons Of IT Outsourcing: Globally, Nationally And Locally.).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations.