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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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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

A good indicator for this fact is the growing number of Chai-Startups in India. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle. This opportunity has a short sale cycle with quick payments. The sale cycle with Govt. Opportunity Nr.

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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. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Tags: StartUp 101.

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Bootstrap Mentality: Key Ingredient For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

In the startup world, bootstrapping essentially means funding your own venture and not being too dependent on external sources. Let’s face it, to have a bootstrapped startup you need grit and total faith and conviction in your product, something a lot of new startup’s find it difficult to conjure. Product first, sales later.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

There are multiple reasons for that, but a major one is that both VC and research funding is concentrated in areas where there appears to be short-term revenues, as opposed to areas that will save more lives and quite likely generate both long-term revenues and savings for society.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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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. Ashish wants to raise money and scale rapidly.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

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Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. Read: India's Big Opportunity In SaaS ]. Such long sales cycle businesses find it very difficult to sustain and survive the pre-revenue period. There is clearly significant investor appetite for this category.

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