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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

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Small and medium businesses get direct exposure to international customers and seem to be coming out as the winners in the chemical market game. Almost Half of Chemical Companies Fear Losing Markets Due to Not Meeting Customers’ Needs.” — Accenture’s Global Buyer Study. in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Rasayan Connect.

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Sheela Foam to Acquire 35% Stake in Furlenco

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Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. Furlenco’s innovative business model has disrupted the traditional furniture industry in India.

India 104
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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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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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How Entrepreneurial Planning Helps You Have Smoother Sailing

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It should apply across the length and breadth of the organization from product/Service development to Recruitments to Quality Assurance to Social Activities and Managing finances. . As an entrepreneur, we need to be grateful to our clients, customers, and even to the prospects. Find out your strengths and hold on to them. .