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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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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. PowerStores.in.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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