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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Discord Channels – Spotify – Fireside (Mark Cuban’s investment) – Facebook(Rooms?) – Open Source (Jam) – Telegram (voice chats 2.0) #audio pic.twitter.com/gVB5h0IcMC — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) April 2, 2021. The social media giants are racing to introduce their own social audio experiences. The platforms.

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8 Interesting Ways Mission-Driven Organizations Are Using AI

Board Effect

Personalized Outreach and Engagement Generative AI can help nonprofits create effective messaging and personalized appeals, as well as identify the best channels for reaching various target audiences. Social Media Content Creation AI can help generate engaging, relevant content for social media channels within seconds.

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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. The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet And Digital Trends for 2017

Brandanew

Lo and behold, Internet growth is stagnating if you take out India. India still is at only 27% Internet penetration so there’s a lot of growth opportunity. 60% customers want better support via online channels. Social media is driving up the need for transparency and online customer support.

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Smartphones – The Crucial Thread In The Fashion Retail Marketing Mix?

YoungUpstarts

My company, Planet Retail , conducted a comprehensive consumer research into e-commerce in 10 key countries, covering mature and emerging markets including China, Japan, India and the USA. 21% of Americans shoppers surveyed using their phones to comment on in-store experiences via social media. But just how can mobiles achieve this?

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The Success Story Of Kartikeya Sharma And iTV Media Network

YoungUpstarts

If you watch any news channel by the ITV Media Group, you probably know the pioneer behind it too. Kartikeya Sharma is one of the youngest and most popular entrepreneurs in India right now who has managed to accomplish a lot in a short span of time. Kartikeya Sharma did not let just news media be the definition of his success.