thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

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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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

I believe the development we’ve seen in the emerging markets in the past 20 years is key to why we have the right conditions for disruption. This time around we have connectivity, but vast underserved markets in services such as banking accounts and healthcare. In the 1990s most of the world didn’t even have telephone connectivity.

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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. This is impossible to consider as realistic in the near term.

India 117

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. has a large enough market that most U.S. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. ———-. Outside the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. This is HARD.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

I believe the development we’ve seen in the emerging markets in the past 20 years is key to why we have the right conditions for disruption. This time around we have connectivity, but vast underserved markets in services such as banking accounts and healthcare. In the 1990s most of the world didn’t even have telephone connectivity.

Finance 40

Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 40

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We are a new company with a novel product in a traditional market and hence must focus on establishing a foothold in various segments of the industry for which our product can be applied. Rahul Tomar is basically a Tunnel Engineer who has worked for 14 years in India and Germany. He had the idea for Tunnelware since 2014.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

Finance 135

Finance Congo Chicago Cambodia 135

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Rajeev came with a list of commodity services like transcription, digitization, etc.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

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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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. So, they created an app for mobile phones that provided farmers with daily prices from various markets.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Amazon is entering India. In effect, Amazon knew all along that there was a significant ‘First-mover Disadvantage’ to launching in India. Market creation challenges.

India 126

India Marketing Non-Compete Vertical 126

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Public markets have become increasingly efficient (also due to electronic trading), thus private companies are an increasingly attractive option for capital looking for outsize returns. Lower interest rates in developed markets and volatility in emerging markets have also made private company investment a more attractive option.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program includes “no charge software, exclusive local networking and mentorship events” via IBM SmartCamp , “technical enablement support to help you develop your product and get to market faster,” and “visibility as part of the IBM smarter planet agenda.”

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Shirish had a pricing model question, as well as a set of go-to-market and sales strategy questions.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As a start, the financial institution will be providing a total of S$340,000 to four social enterprises, namely A-changin , Adrenalin Events & Education , Aii and Bizlink Centre Singapore , which were selected based on the sustainability of their business models, level of social impact and how innovative their proposed projects are.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2012

Given that ERP is such a mature market, the fact that all this startup activity is going on in ERP is a bit puzzling to me. 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. Patient-Help.

India 115

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first. Private companies in less-relevant market segments can often fly under the radar in turbulent times like the recent recession. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Over the next four years, Sisu, which strives to be the future of medical devices in emerging markets, expects to impact 14 million lives with Hemafuse?—?direct and Indian companies.

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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 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry.

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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. That's like selling your prized assets for nothing in a flea market.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

There is no social media or marketing content that you have to create. They are just big markets, and this is why they are so useful. Therefore, the first thing to do is to find the best possible market for your business. Go4WorldBusiness is a huge marketplace with a consolidated position in India.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I did not feel there was a toothpaste on the market suitable for my patients, as many of them contained common allergens and irritants like mint and sodium lauryl sulfate, as well as unnatural fillers and preservatives. Attracting someone from the start can save money on ads, lead generation, and marketing in the future. Just fonz it.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

While North America may be the current hotbed for home health care businesses, the fastest growing region is in Asia-Pacific, where the markets expect a compound annual growth rate of 9.7 This is based on advancements in health care infrastructure in India and China, as well as a rapidly aging Japanese population.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For example, a big accomplishment this summer was joining Instagram, being a visual company Instagram had been missing out of our marketing strategy. It was by far the most successful marketing campaign we have ever completed. We joined in May and now have 1500 followers and growing each day. Image credit: Shel Horowitz.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

This approach is better than producing 10 different things and only starting then to market it which will cost much more. This changes the internal processes of the brand and helps them become more productive as measured by being able to save on headcount and continue to fulfil the marketing, brand or corporate objective.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Amos Schwartzfarb, Managing Director of Techstars Austin The 2020 Techstars Austin startup class consists of: 8base (Coral Gables, FL) Albert Santalo, CEO 8base is a Backend-as-a-Service that combines computing, application services and integrations for building SaaS and market-facing applications.

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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?” Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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