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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. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

When the CEO of GE’s Sustainable Healthcare Solutions business in India called Viv one day and said, “We've got a problem selling our neonatal incubator,” Viv explained: “We started by asking what is the customer problem we're trying to solve for? What is the impact that our customers need?

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5 Ideal Locations For Young Startups

YoungUpstarts

This translates to finding great talent, business ideas, investors, incubators, and more. There are a few accelerators and incubators found within the area, too. Costs and flexibility can be kept within budget if the startup plans to operate out of an incubator. Toronto boasts quite a few startups. Image credit: Wikipedia ].

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How to Startup Your UK Business as a Non-resident

The Startup Magazine

However, the UK has been a proven incubator of many different kinds of organisations. For example, if you were a software engineer based in India, you are well within your rights to sell your services as an outsourced contractor to a UK company. Tech-centric businesses are common, with FinTech being particularly popular in London.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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Advice for Female Founders from Nilima Achwal

SiliconHills

Previously, Achwal founded Iesha Learning, a technology education platform to teach sexual education to junior high school students in India. She also launched and ran SEED, a social enterprise incubation program at Villgro […]

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