ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. million financing round for. Well, there are some government and NGO contacts that I have in mind for her to explore.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

In building my company – Dropmysite / Dropmyemail – I found that managing outsourcing was an ever-evolving combination of local and remote capabilities that stays flexible enough to meet changing conditions. When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

India has been known for 1000’s years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. We felt that we should be the first brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. Thanks to Ashwin Sokke, WOW Skin Science ! #19- 19- Continue Family legacy.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. Igor did not have an answer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Next, Shirish Deodhar discussed InnovizeTech , an Indian company that has built software to capture how employees are spending their time in order to help manage and monitor productivity. Shirish had a pricing model question, as well as a set of go-to-market and sales strategy questions. Photo by takatuka.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Next Pascal Nicolas presented SalesVu , a cloud based sales management tool for restaurants interested in tracking the value of their promotions. As for acquiring customers, so far he has used Internet marketing, and they have just started a partnership with a large reseller of restaurant management software, which is great.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, or NPTEL, is a remarkable resource, especially if you are in India or need information related to marketing in India. Valuable information if you are bootstrapping or on a shoe string budget. Managing a Business Sales and Marketing'

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. But for Cheryl, the problem is that she needs critical mass.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy has already managed the most complex part of the bootstrapping phase with very little outside investment. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. Photo by mjamesno.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Management schools have awareness, but not enough budget.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

LinearCube T hen Ajay Khater with LinearCube presented IntelliSuggest, a document management technology to help the process of searching, processing and repurposing content particularly for lawyers, professional services firms who deal with a lot of contracts and other such use cases. That would be the equipment manufacturers like 3M.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

First up, Alvin Yuen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, presented ISA Innovation , a company providing a hosted IT asset and inventory management solution. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In speaking with Lokesh and discussing his and his colleague's backgrounds, I sensed that this is a group trying to do management consulting with little or no background. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The first, Nitie Mehta from Redmond, Washington, presented Dental Office Services, a business process outsourcing (BPO) concept targeted to help small dental offices handle their office management, financial processing, claims collections, and patient communication functions. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. Jeff has managed to keep his burn rate very low thus far, and a slow and steady crafting of the business is working nicely. SOCO Games. Then Jeff Bogensberger pitched SOCO Games , the maker of a Facebook game called Earth 2.0. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

Myself and the other founders managed to develop our company and generate more than 200,000,000 visits, hire 22 people, get 3,000+ customers, and promote products for the likes of Creative Labs, Polaroid, and Sony. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. The company used a mix of offline and online methods to connect job seekers and recruiters.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. About a year strapped to this rollercoaster and I managed to have my best month yet.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

For example, Bluestone , an online jewelry startup from India, was trying to compete with the traditional brick and mortar jewelry business market. Bootstrapping or self-funding. How did you manage to secure funds for your startup idea? Your business model should support your growth goals. Finding the right funding option.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. Right after we learned that we got to YC, I went for a 10-day trip to Goa, India that I have planned earlier.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

These design houses do a phenomenal job, but it is up to the founders to choose the right firm for their product, and then manage the cost and timeline for the design process. 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.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. We do already have somebody who’s emailed us. Should we use them?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. It’s basic bootstrapping; you’ll want to leverage a little bit of high-level technical expertise to minimize risk. I have a related dilemma. 10-15/hour.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I don’t believe in the myth of the self-made man or woman that you are who you are, and you can achieve what you can achieve really because you believed it hard enough, and you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps to get there. Then he goes to India, and he gets exposed to a whole different world. I’m a fan of hard work.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

I left the company and since then PeerTV went public on AIM in London and managed to raise additional money. Yair Margolin: our one-stop event platform also offers a White Label publishing and managing products. You sell to Telco’s in India and they pay you in two years. It was hard. With BizMe2 it’s simpler.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. SM: The first thing they have learnt is the importance of bootstrapping and attaining customer validation, as well as the mechanics of both those disciplines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

I spent many months actually in India, where I was doing work on HIV and sex workers and got to see that, wow, if I had some additional training, if I had a nursing degree, I would be able to help people just that much more. And I did some international travel. Frank Barbieri : Completely. Ryan Sarver : Yeah.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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