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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Noah Smith recently wrote about why everyone should get excited about India’s prospects. I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. and Indian companies.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. I no longer fly to back and forth to China every three weeks so that feels like a huge positive change. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before?