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

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The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Photo by Alexander Mooij. Discuss.

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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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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. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. Discuss.

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