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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 For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

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At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. The business looks extremely promising and with proper execution, can become a sizable enterprise over time. Estate Lister.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. I would be curious to see what results as this experiment produces.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. My personal analysis is that to make a financial institution successful by catering to the said segment will require a tight control of the types of businesses that are financed. Also, the business model for the business is unclear.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Entrepreneurs Are Maturing

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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.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November. Next page: Today's Pitches.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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First up today was Yogesh Sharma presenting Rangrut.com , a business that connects employers with learning institutions and on-campus students to fill job openings. The crux of the discussion revolved around segmentation and business models. I cautioned Yogesh from believing that he has to raise money. Photo by tatlin.