ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. The business idea was not very well fleshed out, and needs a lot of work still.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. I like this business very much, and believe it can be a large, and important company.

Entrepreneur 118

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. With 317 million people the U.S. Outside the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. Today, at IIT KGP, we caught a glimpse of some of the budding heroes of 21 st century India. Univect Education Solutions.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. SurgeForth has since graduated to paying customers, and is making good progress. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service? • How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? In the U.S. How can they find you?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

By the end of the fourth quarter, we will have the first customers deploy our basic version. Rahul Tomar is basically a Tunnel Engineer who has worked for 14 years in India and Germany. DigitalTwin is currently based in Cologne, Germany. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. The startup ecosystem here is quite young.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Rangrut.com.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. Please remember, free is not a business model. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Richard is currently charging $1.99

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Doing so requires creating a hybrid business model, one that prioritizes the need for innovation while keeping in play the best aspects of operational excellence — for example, its focus on relentless, constant improvement. Empower fast, cheap, customer-centric experimentation. Lazy brains won’t survive.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 22, 2011

At today's roundtable, the last for 2011, we had four different countries represented and an intense set of discussions on five very interesting businesses - a fabulous event to end the year with. Anand already has 100 beta customers and fifteen of them are paying Rs. BootstrapToday.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

This promotes the company’s core services to new customers, and hopefully locks them in as permanent customers. In addition, BizSpark offers technical support, business training, and a network of over 2,000 partners to connect members with incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies, and other resources.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2012

Surjith Singh from Chennai, India, pitched Rural ERP , a business that intends to focus on supplying rural Indian small and micro businesses with local language ERP systems. Hence, building a local language (Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujrati) ERP SaaS business will be an uphill task. Patient-Help.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wrote a list of 50+ potential business names and ended up choosing TapTimize. 14- HQ in Lisbon and our target customers are San Francisco. 17- India is quite an interesting name. And of course, India being an exotic destination to travel to the topic of where to go when to go India always came up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Remember your customers, culture, and connections.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2017

billion dollar market of business communication software. Its secret is a business model that focuses on providing a premium service using open source solutions, 90% cheaper than its competition, according to Eleconomista. Spanish startup Noysi has managed to penetrate the crowded and growing $67.4

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well. Don't miss it!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites. Gnosis India. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

So for this year we try increase our revenue and launch a social campaign to get our customers to be more involved. We wanted our customers contribute their story and showcase their little kids wearing our clothing. I also had to deal with explaining my vision to developers in India and trying to find quality support on a budget.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Binaize (Bangalore, India) Nikhil Jois, CEO Binaize is a network intelligence software product for Industrial IoT that helps minimize machine downtime and increase the operational efficiency of industrial control systems. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

In our Business Incubator series of interviews, we have invited many leaders from the industry to come share their best practices and challenges with us. We have also facilitated open discussions on Why Do Business Incubators Fail and Incubator Business Models , which turned out to be animated, active and extremely constructive discussions.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Today's roundtable had a couple of interesting businesses, but before I get to them, I want to underscore that entrepreneurs MUST gauge fundability before assuming that they can build their businesses by raising money. The company already has engaged about 75 travel agencies and some 900 customers. TravelTriangle.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Didn''t Steve Jobs say that customers don''t know what they want.? Very soon I was doing Business Model Canvases for everything (of course, I hadn’t even read the entire book yet). Does anybody really want it? How will we decide pricing? So I guess we should build what we as entrepreneurs and ideators think is right.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service? • How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? How can they find you? This is HARD.

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Africa Brazil India China 76

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

New suppliers and customers can be found much further afield, and even internationally, literally with the click of a mouse. Right from the start, Jane recognized the potential of exporting and designed a business model comprising physical and online stores. Serving the community by looking beyond it. A stint working in the L.A.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 26, 2014

Supposedly, these same words were written on the wall of Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta, India. These people may be your customers, your employees, your investors and/or your family (who I will hereafter call your “constituents”). The other day, my wife came home from a meditation class with a sheet of paper.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve built a loyal customer base and by selling directly through image consultants, stylists, at shows and on my website I am able to give my clients top quality at almost wholesale affordable prices. (I Our business has started little bit over a month ago, but we have already had more success that we have expected.

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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. After one year as a consultant to the business owners, I realized it was not in a position to succeed. The restaurant’s main target customers had always been the people who used the highway.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In 2009 I spent 10 months volunteering and traveling in South East Asia, India and Nepal. It seems like a natural fit me, and for the small business owners buying our offers. If I have a poor campaign with Google Ads, I'm not going to say Google has a horrible business model, but that seems to be what's happening with Groupon.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I reminded him that commercial open source is a classic freemium model, where the free software comes with paid customer support and training. Soren's answer is ambiguous, even though his value proposition and business model are relatively clear and well thought through. So, which one are you, I asked.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. Brainscape. Note, I said, validated. Discuss.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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