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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade

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Then Umashankar Balasubramanian of RDimensio pitched an SMS-based classified service. Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Besides the fact that he is from London, I could not figure out why; instead of expanding the franchise in India, it makes sense to jump to London. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google's Enterprise Solution

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OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Building new apps is also not as simple. Enter OrangeScape. Discuss.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

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Next Badri Badrinarayanan V S, from Chennai, India, pitched DiaSof , a software-based solution for disease management of diabetes patients in India. Apparently, India has 50 million diabetic and another 40 million pre-diabetic patients. Jay does not have that yet. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

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Five bulk SMS vendors and two advertisers have signed on as vendors. Last up, Adarsh Jain pitched Fippy, a Web-based interface offering consumers customized mobile phone numbers in India. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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5 Ways Cloud Telephony Can Benefit Startups

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The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. From job search engines, to cab companies, to food delivery services, many of these businesses are growing fast and gaining popularity. Cloud telephony services fall into this category. Conclusion.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.