ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. His firm invests in four. CricketWeekly.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Let’s say you’re an entrepreneur in India. You should type something like this into Google: “banks in India business plans”. For example, you might try: “What kind of business plan does United Bank of India require for a loan?”. Finding country-specific resources: Incubators and accelerators. It looked promising.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Also, an Incubation Radar profile on CrowdEngineering explains more about this very, very cool company doing crowdsourced customer support. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Two particularly important roles include the chief venture capitalist, because the investment philosophy for invention is different than traditional finance, and the chief internal ambassador “who connects the two [functions] and builds bridges.” “So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There are numerous VCs in Japan, but the landscape is still not nearly as built out as it is in India and China, and has nowhere near the level of Silicon Valley VC influence that those two countries have. In other words, you don’t see Silicon Valley bigwigs in Japan, but they’re all over India and China.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. Jay does not have that yet.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Next, Priyanka Bhatnagar from Pune, India, pitched Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories , an e-commerce jewelry line. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. Also, folks, remember, the Microsoft India Startup Grant application deadline is May 31.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. That's right--Indiana.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting the CRM price-point by leveraging India to build a $100M+ 100% bootstrapped business. See: 1M/1M Incubation Radar: Freshdesk ].

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing. And along the way, if necessary and appropriate, she can raise financing with a vastly more validated business. At this point, financing discussions are premature and are likely not to yield success. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It is, however, too early for financing. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. StyleShop247.com.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. It is very expensive to scale operations in multiple cities, and there is absolutely no chance of VCs financing yet another Groupon look alike without serious traction. I said, no. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Cortese Design Bags.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. So the first company I want to discuss today is OrangeScape, before I move on to today's presenters.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. And that is what I advised J.J.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at The Independent , May 16, 2006: As an economist, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and current World Bank presidential candidate brings something completely different and equally valuable to discussions of entrepreneurship than CEOs and investment bankers. Aneesha Raghunathan at Raising CEO Kids , Dec.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We have discussed the topic of technology product companies from India on my blog for many years now. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. 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. We have to work on that! Financial Consulting Service. Photo by designkryt.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Pune, India?. From BillGuard ’s crowdsourced personal finance security to Wix ’s web publishing tool and Cardboard Technologies ’ biodegradable bicycle, the startup landscape has a reputation of being the most inventive in the world.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |. Personal Finance.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

India and Israel pitch their businesses. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. Jeu is trying to figure out his financing options, and the majority of the discussion today was around target market, product roadmap, and monetization models, which are the factors that would drive investment strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing? Whichever direction you go, please do not assume that some VC is going to finance you during this phase. How long can you go without a salary?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? 2) yes, join an incubator, (1) Read this [link].

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India. Barclays may want to have a partnership with State Bank of India and offer the customer an easy, seamless process to open the second account. Easy as it may sound, this is a very complex process, fraught with regulatory issues.

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