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

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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. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

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During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. We also did some segmentation work and related exploration of relevant channels. MyDataOrganizer.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. We discussed guerilla p.r., product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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At the roundtable, five entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to me, and I interacted with them in our usual format, with active participation from the audience. First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model

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Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. The Free Rider Problem. Also, Michaeline Daboul, from New Hampshire, pitched MMIS Inc. , Discuss.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Americas new business model: Sharing. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Becoming a TaskRabbit But mostly, the business of sharing is about making some extra cash. Game Hunters.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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The business is very different in London, and my feedback was that investors want a repeatable business model. For that to happen, he needs to show investors how his India model scales, without introducing a random London factor in the business. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly. Discuss.

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