ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

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.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. Igor did not have an answer. HirePlug.com.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. Fortunately, there are numerous such companies in India. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. Subscription Carpool Service.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

And, as we brainstormed with today's audience, they suggested other excellent use cases, including one for product managers to discuss feature-function priorities with customers and prospects. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Taariq, please note!

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Also, an Incubation Radar profile on CrowdEngineering explains more about this very, very cool company doing crowdsourced customer support. Photo by nosheep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. We were expecting twins. It takes care of itself.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 And if you have children, those children need to be raised.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

India and Israel pitch their businesses. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. Senthil is doing a small business marketing solution that combines loyalty programs with email marketing and campaign management. directdialogs. The site's unique visitors are at about 600,000 per month.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. But for Cheryl, the problem is that she needs critical mass.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. On to today's roundtable, we had five businesses, all of which, I believe, can be built to become sustainable companies.

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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. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Last up was Ayesha Hazra from Kolkata, India, discussing Magne Consulting, a retail strategy consulting firm. Magne Consulting.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Today's roundtable, as usual, was an international affair, with entrepreneurs presenting from different parts of the US, India, Israel, and many other geographies. This short video explains how the two programs differ: Bottomline: YC, superb incubator, is a program that applies to less than.01%

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. If possible, of course.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. For enterprises and small businesses, managing a systematic sales cycle is crucial, and before having telemarketing reps call prospects, a few rounds of Stanzr events may be an efficient way to move them down the sales funnel.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The first, Nitie Mehta from Redmond, Washington, presented Dental Office Services, a business process outsourcing (BPO) concept targeted to help small dental offices handle their office management, financial processing, claims collections, and patient communication functions. You can read more about athenahealth here. Wise Mind Studios LLC.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It is much better to grow organically with revenue. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Cortese Design Bags.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

LinearCube T hen Ajay Khater with LinearCube presented IntelliSuggest, a document management technology to help the process of searching, processing and repurposing content particularly for lawyers, professional services firms who deal with a lot of contracts and other such use cases. That would be the equipment manufacturers like 3M.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Finally, I am queasy about the assumption that retailers will fulfill their part on the merchandising and logistics side adequately, because other than catalog companies, most retailers do not have the infrastructure to service consumer orders - packing, shipping, inventory management. Trinity Business Solutions. Photo by wax115.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

First, Ankit Duggal from Clifton, New Jersey, pitched RER LLC , a firm that currently manages a real estate investment fund and is working on an investment advisory service catering to real estate investors - individuals and small businesses. In addition, I also suggested testing the wealth manager market.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

This is good news: A revenue model is always good to have early on to sustain a venture while the bigger scaling points are still being sorted out. Vishal is looking at three different segments and use cases: management schools, corporate training and recruitment evaluation. Management schools have awareness, but not enough budget.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In speaking with Lokesh and discussing his and his colleague's backgrounds, I sensed that this is a group trying to do management consulting with little or no background. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike wants to manage online identity on behalf of consumers so that they can maintain multiple identities for different types of sites, say photo, career, etc. Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. Remote Stylist.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. Technology is changing the way we do business; crowd sourcing and social networks have become a default security system. Come and meet some of those on the front line.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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