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How to Invest in Startups – Indian Edition

The Startup Magazine

India has always been renowned as the land of entrepreneurs. After England, it was India which was described by many as the “nation of shopkeepers”. And this has been the way of life here in India. Are you wondering how to invest in startups in India? India has become the world’s fastest-growing startup ecosystem.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Of course, there are exceptions, but they are minimal.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing

ReadWriteStart

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Photo by nosheep.

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Does Your Culture Reward The Lazy Brain? Five Ways to Override This Natural Human Tendency.

YoungUpstarts

In India, young Intuit innovators conducted an experiment on helping farmers get the best price for their products — even though management initially wasn’t interested in the idea. Unfortunately, Toyota diluted that system in its drive for global expansion and global sales leadership.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. Her Entrepreneur Journeys book series, Entrepreneur Journeys , Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction , Positioning: How To Test, Validate, and Bring Your Idea To Market Innovation: Need Of The Hour , as well as Vision India 2020 , are all available from Amazon.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. I believe it is our excessive urge to ‘act normal’ and disdain of ‘networking’ that dilutes our social glue.