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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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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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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. million financing round for.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First

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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. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy.

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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 For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. 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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. OrangeScape.