ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

Although Google has derived most of its success in the internet and software service sectors, its forays into hardware promise to boost its future revenue potential. costs $35 and although it entered a crowded market (that includes Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV), its modest price will give it an edge over the other devices.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2023

Swiggy, a India-based food delivery giant , has made a strategic move to boost customer engagement and retention by launching its own credit card. This new service is a collaboration between Swiggy and HDFC Bank , India’s largest private bank, and is intended to provide customers with a number of advantages.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. In the financial year ending in March this year, the startup generated a revenue of $18.5 Furlenco’s innovative business model has disrupted the traditional furniture industry in India.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mission-driven organizations are inherently adept at doing more with less, but AI has the potential to further enhance their efficiency, improve operations, and reduce costs — allowing these organizations to be a greater force for social good. Using cost-per-acquisition bidding on Google ads, they’ve had a significant increase in new donors.

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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. and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The founders. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Second, it has become far more convenient and cost-effective to learn about something new (or to shop) using the internet, versus attending a day-long seminar at the Marriott or flying to a trade show in Las Vegas.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines. The Hustle. The key takeaways here are how careful you need to be about hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

And elsewhere creator monetisation tools and revenue streams continue to expand: Ads and bran deals – Youtube reported $6 billion in revenue for Q1 2021 , a 50% growth rate from the equivalent period last year. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Billion in 2020.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. This means being able to increase profits without increasing costs at an equal (or higher) rate. You should forecast the expected cost the investment or loan will cover, and the returns it will generate in future.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Photo Credit: Alex Dask. Photo Credit: Vanessa Bouche.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Rickshaw drivers in India have cell phones as do camel drivers in the remote Rajasthan desert. Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. But when I found out that Rajeev is a computer engineer, I suggested to him to build a cost-effective SEO services firm, which would be more interesting. Rajeev came with a list of commodity services like transcription, digitization, etc.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

5- More due to low costs. The cost of technology and the services needed to start and run a business has come down dramatically. million workers and generate revenue of $1.9 Thanks to Matt Scott, Termite Survey ! #5- Photo Credit: Michael Zipurzky. There will be more entrepreneurs in the future.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

and each book costs $375 retail. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

For these companies, the train serves as a giant arrow pointing at cities like Dongguan, highlighting that this location combines the easy access, cost incentives, technology resources and of course mobility to warrant opening a corporate office.’. India’s economy is lucrative to say the least.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

He seems to be worried about server costs and such and is trying to do high dollar value deals without reference customers. As long as the deals cover his infrastructure costs, he should not be worried. Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc. Last up, Todd Clark with Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc. , Photo by lco.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. Now the focus is on digital music GROWTH.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

An Nguyen and I just completed an analysis of VC and research funding compared with the cost to society of different diseases, and the results show wildly disproportionate funding for certain diseases relative to their impact in society. of US annual medical costs in 2008, compared with 6.5% The data is painful. a decade prior.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. In the 80s and 90s a company would go public when it hit $20M in revenue.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

For a small company that has revenue and accounts receivable, you probably are more inclined to Monetary Policy as it has more to do with your ability to access debt capital from banks through credit lines. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right?

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

The vast majority of VC rounds go to revenue generating companies. 60% are for revenue generating companies with a sellable product. 10% goes to profitable companies ready to grow (this data is for the US & UK; the same chart for China & India is skewed way to the right). 25% during product development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms. How can you improve LTV ?

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Expensive iterations: Depending on the product doing a new rev of the hardware may cost thousands of dollars or more and could also take weeks if not at least several days. Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property. To get invited, you had to fill out a short questionnaire and then get selected to attend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

For example, Orkut is most popular in India and Asia, while Ryze is popular in Europe. The four major sites above all worked for several years before they saw any revenue, and have required investments of $50 million or more to build their brand. My advice is to join one or two to check for value, rather than trying to do them all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. He's like, I can't, don't care.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

They believe it is an additional cost of little to no value. India is also a growing market for IT and other technological equipment. An expanded revenue base. Small businesses are usually reluctant to take on the process of translation in their marketing. However, this is far from the truth. Translation has many benefits.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. mba india. Amit said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Typical costs for startups today range from $250,000 to $1 million, even if the offering does not go through. Today, eight times as many successful startups are acquired, as compared to the number attempting to go public. Going public is an expensive process.

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