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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. Vimagino.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

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For example, you can save 7 trees in the rain forest in south america for £1, and in India you can get all you can eat curry…(see the presentation on the link below – 300 views in about 1 hour from posting!). Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

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Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level. Photo by designkryt.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Our offshore development team is in India and the result has been excellent because we followed a disciplined process in both selection and ongoing development.