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

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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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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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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. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. 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. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

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Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.