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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. We can guide you on how to organize a gathering. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

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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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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SXSW Startups: Tunnelware

Austin Startup

Rahul Tomar is basically a Tunnel Engineer who has worked for 14 years in India and Germany. Being a software developer, he looked for the team in game development and he pitched the idea to Holger Sprengel and Jens Piesk who became the two other founders. Be flexible with your idea development and the scope of the idea.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

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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Twitter Link Roundup #33 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting – [link]. The Beauty of India: 50 Amazing Photos – [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants?