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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Noah Smith recently wrote about why everyone should get excited about India’s prospects. I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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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. Profitably managing and owning businesses with all the inherent risks have always defined the Indian entrepreneurial spirit.

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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: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. 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. Last up was Indrajit Chowdhury discussing PowerStores.in

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. I was management. I added a dev team in India to spearhead new initiatives and design our future UI. You can’t get 5 years into one. That’s falling prey to the “ mythical man month &# line of thinking. What did he know? He was tech.

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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? 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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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

ReadWriteStart

First, Jose Briones from Dallas, Texas, pitched SPOTS Online, a QuickBooks add-on product for companies that have to manage complex supply chains but are not quite ready to take on the expense and complexity of an ERP roll out like NetSuite. Apparently, India has 50 million diabetic and another 40 million pre-diabetic patients.