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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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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well? Statisco Economic Analytics.

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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.

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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: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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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.