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The Start-up Scene In India

YoungUpstarts

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. I came back to India , in 2004.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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

ReadWriteStart

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.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

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. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later. Photo by brokenarts.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

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? Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. money for an early-stage venture catering to a foreign market is abysmally low.

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups by giving them access to a range of Microsoft software at free or discounted prices.

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

ReadWriteStart

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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