thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans. Low cost medical devices: In 2009 in India, GE partnered with Wipro to launch low cost medical devices including a $500 portable ECG.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. PowerStores.in. Photo by brokenarts.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. Girish already has a number of clients and is well on his way to building the business. At 11 a.m., Quantum Arc.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

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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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. Also, the business model for the business is unclear.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. Disruptors are dismissed until they aren’t.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Neelam Dwivedi of NeelAgil Technologies Private Ltd aims to help millions of people treat their diabetes The Forrest Four-Cast: February 19, 2020 The next time you’re out in a crowd, look around. NeelAgil Technologies Private Limited , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , is determined to change that. million Americans.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Today's roundtable was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and the 1M/1M program as part of the former's Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the student-run e-cell. Today, at IIT KGP, we caught a glimpse of some of the budding heroes of 21 st century India.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A finalist in Augmented and Virtual Reality , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Tunnelware is a product of DigitalTwin Technology, founded in Cologne, Germany, which aims to create digital twins of civil infrastructure. but a relatively new variant of the technology looks set to make an equally significant impact.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. Disruptors are dismissed until they aren’t.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities. Explosion in technology. .

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models. In the U.S. How can they find you? This is HARD.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. The cost of technology and the services needed to start and run a business has come down dramatically. Photo Credit: Michael Zipurzky. There will be more entrepreneurs in the future.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade. Information is more widely available, due to increased connectivity through technology platforms. Technology ubiquity. Demand for late stage VC-backed companies.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

This is not a comprehensive list, but merely an attempt to highlight some of the most notable examples relevant for technology-enabled startups. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 1) Corporate Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans. Low cost medical devices: In 2009 in India, GE partnered with Wipro to launch low cost medical devices including a $500 portable ECG.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. The Free Rider Problem. Also, Michaeline Daboul, from New Hampshire, pitched MMIS Inc. , Discuss.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

It’s not easy being an artist or artisan anywhere in the world; however, it’s probably worse in class- (and caste-) conscious India. India’s artisan community – faced by high interest loans and mass-produced crafts from other countries – is in a state of extreme poverty and duress.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

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. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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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. In other words, you have to create an idea meritocracy.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Next comes the topic of angels. Photo by takatuka.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. Sudhi also has a professional services business that generates $200-250k a year, and is currently financing his forays into ERP. Patient-Help.

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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. This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it. See the Hemafuse pitch in the category of Health, Wearables & Wellbeing Technology (5 pm to 6 pm Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. and Indian companies.

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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. Besides the fact that he is from London, I could not figure out why; instead of expanding the franchise in India, it makes sense to jump to London. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

17- India is quite an interesting name. The business idea to do technology-driven customized and personalized trips for travelers coming to India was born sometime in 2009 just before I had to go to study and do my MBA. Something aspirational and something that rang true for almost anybody traveling to India.

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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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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

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction.

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