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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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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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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus. million financing round for.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Add to this the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) syndrome that most e-commerce companies in India have - will they buy Indrajit's product?

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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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. Please try to understand why.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Sequoia has financed them. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Anyway, those are just a few blue sky ideas for you to go after. Photo by thesaint.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation.

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