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

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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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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

Thrilled to be working within the university system, he became immersed in the back-end of education, managing and streamlining the ways student and curriculum data got integrated into the existing applications. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS).

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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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

It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. I was management. What did he know? He was tech. I had built computer systems before.

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Binpress – A Marketplace to Find Affordable and Trustworthy Code for Web Development

VC Cafe

Binpress , the latest project by the Israeli startup incubator Lionite is making waves in the coding community with their source code marketplace. Transactions are completely managed by Binpress, and include a 14-day money back guarantee. Their focus is on code for web applications in all sorts of languages, frameworks, and platforms.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Entrepreneurs Are Maturing

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It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. I like this business very much, and believe it can be a large, and important company.